Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107068841)

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.

Author: David A. Bello
ISBN-10: 1107068843
ISBN-13: 9781107068841
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2016
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.26w x 1.08d