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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain
David A. Bello
其他書名
Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2016-02-05
主題
History / Asia / General
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
History / Modern / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
ISBN
1107706092
9781107706095
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c5yUDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.
