environment, identity, and empire in Qing China's borderlands /
First Statement of Responsibility
David A. Bello (Washington and Lee University).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xviii, 336 pages :
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maps ;
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24 cm.
SERIES
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Studies in environment and history
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Qing fields in theory and 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.
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Borderlands-- Environmental aspects-- China-- History.
Environmental policy-- China-- History.
Ethnicity-- Environmental aspects-- China-- History.
Human ecology-- Political aspects-- China-- History.
Hunting and gathering societies-- China-- Manchuria-- History.
Imperialism-- Environmental aspects-- China-- History.
Indigenous peoples-- China-- Yunnan Sheng-- History.
Pastoral systems-- China-- Inner Mongolia-- History.
Sustainability-- Political aspects-- China-- History.