Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity and empire in Qing China's borderlands

Across forest, steppe and mountain : environment, identity and empire in Qing China's borderlands / David A. Bello.

Author/creator	Bello, David Anthony, 1963-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Description	pages cm.
Subject(s)	Environmental policy--China --History. Borderlands--Environmental aspects --China --History. Hunting and gathering societies--China --Manchuria --History. Pastoral systems--China --Inner Mongolia --History. Indigenous peoples--China --Yunnan Sheng --History. Ethnicity--Environmental aspects --China --History. Imperialism--Environmental aspects --China --History. Human ecology--Political aspects --China --History. Sustainability--Political aspects --China --History. China--History --Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.

Series	Studies in environment and history Studies in environment and history. ^A127013
Contents	Qing Fields in Theory & 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.
General note	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2015010604
ISBN	9781107068841 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	1107068843 (hardback : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	GE190 .C6 B35 2015	✔ Available	Place Hold