Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity and empire in Qing China's borderlands / David A. Bello, Washington and Lee University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bello, David Anthony, 1963-

Series:

Studies in environment and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China--History.

Environmental policy.

Human ecology--Political aspects.

History.

Human ecology.

Imperialism.

Ethnicity.

Indigenous peoples.

Pastoral systems.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Borderlands.

China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.

China.

Borderlands--Environmental aspects--China--History.

Hunting and gathering societies--China--Manchuria--History.

Pastoral systems--China--Inner Mongolia--History.

Indigenous peoples--China--Yunnan Sheng--History.

Ethnicity--Environmental aspects--China--History.

Imperialism--Environmental aspects--China--History.

Human ecology--Political aspects--China--History.

Sustainability--Political aspects--China--History.

Sustainability.

China--Yunnan Sheng.

China--Inner Mongolia.

China--Manchuria.

Physical Description:

xviii, 336 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The multicultural Qing is reconsidered in "multi-ecological" terms of three borderland case studies from northeastern Manchuria, south-central Inner Mongolia, and southwestern Yunnan. Human pursuit of game, tending of livestock, and susceptibility to disease vectors required imperial adaptation beyond the cultural constructs of banners or chieftainships in order to maintain a "sustainable Qing periphery" based on these environmental relations between people and animals. The resulting borderland spaces are, therefore, not simply contrivances of more anthropocentric administrative fiat, but environmental interdependencies constructed through more "organic" and conditional relations of imperial foraging, imperial pastoralism, and imperial indigenism.

Contents:

Qing Fields in Theory & Practice

The Nature of Imperial Foraging in the SAH Basin

The Nature of Imperial Pastoralism in Southern Inner Mongolia

The Nature of Imperial Indigenism in Southwestern Yunnan

Borderland Hanspace in the Nineteenth Century

Qing Environmentality.

Notes:

The multicultural Qing is reconsidered in "multi-ecological" terms of three borderland case studies from northeastern Manchuria, south-central Inner Mongolia, and southwestern Yunnan. Human pursuit of game, tending of livestock, and susceptibility to disease vectors required imperial adaptation beyond the cultural constructs of banners or chieftainships in order to maintain a "sustainable Qing periphery" based on these environmental relations between people and animals. The resulting borderland spaces are, therefore, not simply contrivances of more anthropocentric administrative fiat, but environmental interdependencies constructed through more "organic" and conditional relations of imperial foraging, imperial pastoralism, and imperial indigenism.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.

ISBN:

9781107068841

1107068843

OCLC:

910936299

Publisher Number:

40025852839