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Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity, and empire in Qing China's borderlands / David A. Bello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bello, David Anthony, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Studies in environment and history.
- Studies in environment and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--China--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Borderlands--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Borderlands.
- Hunting and gathering societies--China--Manchuria--History.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Pastoral systems--China--Inner Mongolia--History.
- Pastoral systems.
- Indigenous peoples--China--Yunnan Sheng--History.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Sustainability--Political aspects--China--History.
- Sustainability.
- Human ecology--Political aspects--China--History.
- Human ecology.
- Imperialism--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Imperialism.
- Ethnicity--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- Ethnicity.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Across Forest, Steppe, & Mountain
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.
- 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:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-44394-9
- 1-316-44695-6
- 1-316-44652-2
- 1-316-44781-2
- 1-316-44867-3
- 1-316-44738-3
- 1-107-70609-2
- 1-316-44953-X
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