{"product_id":"a-world-trimmed-with-fur-jonathan-schlesinger-9780804799966","title":"A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA World Trimmed with Fur\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century--pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to \"purification;\" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Schlesinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804799962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804799966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Jonathan Schlesinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065154023679,"sku":"9780804799966","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77124d89-bdfe-4c08-a5a5-706b49b91a54.jpg?v=1768673352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-world-trimmed-with-fur-jonathan-schlesinger-9780804799966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}