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Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands

By: David A Bello(Author)
350 pages, 5 maps, 9 tables
Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain
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About this book

In Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain, 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

Introduction
1. Qing fields in theory and practice
2. The nature of imperial foraging in the SAH basin
3. The nature of imperial pastoralism in southern Inner Mongolia
4. The nature of imperial indigenism in southwestern Yunnan
5. Borderland Hanspace in the nineteenth century
6. Qing environmentality

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Biography

David Bello is an Associate Professor of East Asian History at Washington and Lee University, Virginia.

By: David A Bello(Author)
350 pages, 5 maps, 9 tables
Media reviews

"David A. Bello's book is important, innovative, well written, exceptionally researched, and deserving of an audience that extends beyond scholars of late imperial (or early modern) China to those interested in environmental history, ethnicity, empires, and the dynamics of the early modern world [...] this book is fabulous, engaging, intriguing, and awe-inspiring."
– Robert A. Marks, Whittier College, California

"This is a multifaceted work of original and significant scholarship, complementing a general professional and publishing trend in environmental history relating both to China and to global history of the early modern period."
– Pamela Crossley, Dartmouth College

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