Reshaping the frontier landscape : Dongchuan in eighteenth-century southwest China / by Fei Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Fei (Historian), author.

Series:

Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 10.

Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

History.

Copper industry and trade.

Landscape changes.

Dongchuan Qu (Kunming Shi, China)--History--18th century.

Dongchuan Qu (Kunming Shi, China).

Landscape changes--China--Kunming Shi--History--18th century.

Copper industry and trade--China--Kunming Shi--History--18th century.

City planning--China--Kunming Shi--History--18th century.

China--Kunming Shi.

Physical Description:

x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Dongchuan in eighteenth-century southwest China

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In 'Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China', Fei Huang examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people's daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Huang, Fei (Historian) author. Reshaping the frontier landscape.

ISBN:

9789004362291

9004362290

OCLC:

1011103355