Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain
Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19927282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Bello (0000-0003-4537-9483, Washington and Lee University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781107706095 |
| OpenAlex | W2344457122 |
| Open Library | OL34746368M |
| ISBN | 9781107706095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · China · Empire · Ethnic group · Geography · Political science · Politics · Steppe · Unification · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1644-1912 · Borderlands · Environmental aspects · Environmental policy · Ethnicity · Human Ecology · Hunting and gathering societies · Imperialism · Indigenous peoples · Pastoral systems · Political aspects · qing dynasty · Sustainability
Ovoos on late Qing dynasty Mongol banner maps (late 19th-early 20th centuries)
Animals” in Republican China
Chinese Environmental History
A Buffer against Whom? Rethinking the Qing-Chosŏn Border Region
Milk, Game or Grain for a Manchurian Outpost
The Solon Sable Tribute, Hunters of Inner Asia and Dynastic Elites at the Imperial Centre
Forests and Rivers
Spicy red in Shrimp Town
Bannermen As Translators
Financing Market-Oriented Reforestation
Wounding Our Customs
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley
El Niño and the Nomads
Introduction
Japanese Imperialism and Environmental Disease on a Soy Frontier, 1890-1940
Woods and Warfare in Korea and the World
A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734-1898 by sector, sub-sector pattern, and region
Han Migrant Farmers in Qing Inner Mongolia. Reluctant Pioneers or Human Great Wall
Animals as Text
Animals as Wonders
Where Did the Animals Go?
Animals in Nineteenth-Century Eschatological Discourse
From Land Reclamation to Land Grab
Ginseng and Borderland
Knowing Animals in China’s History
Rethinking Qing Manchuria's Prohibition Policies
Empires’ Keif, or Opium Trade on the Tea Route in the Era of Late Empires
Dai in the “Land of Tropical Miasma”
Animals through Chinese History
Frontier atmosphere
Ethnic Chrysalis
Knowing a Sentient Mountain
Illegal Markets and the Formation of a Central Asian Borderland
Great Northern Wilderness'-style environmentalism
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |