2016年3月12日 星期六

清代環境史



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



AUTHOR: David Anthony Bello
DATE PUBLISHED: February 2016
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 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.

-Combines under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language with natural science literature
-Complements a general professional and publishing trend in environmental history relating both to China and to global history of the early modern period
-Offers a new, radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate China's borderlands into its expanding empire

Table of 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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David Bello is Associate Professor of History, and Director of East Asian Studies at Washington & Lee University.


Selected Publications
1. "Relieving Mongols of Their Pastoral Identity: The Environment of Disaster Management on the 18th Century Qing China Steppe." Environmental History, 19.3 (July 2014): 480-504.
2 . "The Cultured Nature of Imperial Foraging in Manchuria," Late Imperial China 31.2 (Dec. 2010): 1-33.
3. "To Go Where No Han Could Go for Long: Malaria and the Qing Construction of Ethnic Administrative Space in Frontier Yunnan," Modern China, 31.3 (July 2005): 283-317.
4. Opium and the Limits of Empire, Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850. Cambridge MA: Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 2005.
5. "The Venomous Course of Southwestern Opium: Qing Prohibition in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in the Early Nineteenth Century," The Journal of Asian Studies, 62, No. 1, November 2003.

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