Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain_ Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China\'s Borderlands
1 Qing Fields in Theory and Practice In the summer of 1765 a swarm of locusts appeared in the lands of the Pastoral Chakhar Mong ...
the Qing empire in environmental historical practice as Mongol horsemen were deployed to save Hanfields south of the Great Wall ...
human and ecological diversities to maintain the vast unity of Inner Asia and China proper. In this sense,“from many, one”was th ...
broadly corresponds to what is known in Chinese geomancy as a “dragon’s true lair”(long zhen xue), whereqinaturally concentrates ...
fashion. These elements included aspects of Confucian philosophy and historiography as well as less orthodox geomancy (fengshuio ...
applicability and narrower focus, this discourse is not entirely synonymous with Hanspace. The accommodation of accommodationist ...
unconcerned with precise measurement. Instead it conveys facts that can be read here as a template for the spatialization of Han ...
system’s revision by linking celestial bodies to contemporary Tang administrative territories while retaining Nine Provinces ter ...
Some of the geomantic principles Yixing relied on are also visible on Ming maps that envisioned China proper as consisting of th ...
interdependence of humans and ecology not just by virtue of a Han- barbarian self-other dichotomy. Even tribute, a primary measu ...
against commentators who would permanently restrict Han hegemony to the Five Domains (Wufu), numerous historical examples of the ...
late Tang when“the ground [of the dynastic capital of Chang’an] became unsteady and unstable, an indication of the exhaustion an ...
During the Han imperial intervals between Inner Asian rule, particu- larly during the Ming, a broader consensus on the inviolabi ...
Wang’s views are informed not only by human actions, the Manchu conquest chief among them, but also by the ecology of China prop ...
Destabilizing ethnic diversity is the direct result of a corrosive confluence of ecological and anthropogenic conditions. Wang’s ...
suitable for (Han) Chinese capitals as far back in antiquity as Yao and Shun.^40 Hereqi’s permutations provide the narrative of ...
Shaanxi-Sichuan governor-general Yue Zhongqi urging he lead a rebel- lion as the descendant of the famous Song general, Han ethn ...
Marchmount geography, which had plotted only four, for example, during the Warring States period. Marchmounts by tradition expan ...
Tang of Han convention. The emperor asserted that from the Jiajing reign ( 1522 – 66 ) on, there was a blockage ofqicirculating ...
their identity was empirically and historically rooted in the very ground upon which they stood. Hanspace embodied the natural l ...
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