Book ID: CBB566174997

Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands (2016)

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Bello, David A. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 350
Language: English

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.

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Review Xiuyu Wang (January 2017) Review of "Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands". Environmental History (pp. 174-176). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rogaski, Ruth
Christmas, Sakura Marcelle
Nimrod Baranovitch
Yuting Dong
Julie Michelle Klinger
Schlesinger, Jonathan
Concepts
Borderlands
Imperialism
Science and politics
Colonialism
Cartography
Japan, colonies
Time Periods
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
China
Manchuria
Japan
Inner Mongolia (China)
Mongolia
Yunnan Province (China)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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