Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain - Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China''s Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor David Bello is an Associate Professor of East Asian History at Washington and Lee University, Virginia. Klappentext Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands. Zusammenfassung In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Qing fields in theory and practice; 2. The nature of imperial foraging in the SAH basin; 3. The nature of imperial pastoralism in southern Inner Mongolia; 4. The nature of imperial indigenism in southwestern Yunnan; 5. Borderland Hanspace in the nineteenth century; 6. Qing environmentality.

Product details

• Authors: David A Bello, David A. Bello, David Anthony Bello
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107068841
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06884-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; China, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political structure & processes, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, C 1600 To C 1700, Political structure and processes, C 1700 To C 1800