Description

The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former “outer zones” in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of “all-under-heaven” to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call 'China.'

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical Entity
Yongtao Du and Jeff Kyong-McClain

Chapter 1: Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Maps
from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign Periods
Laura Hostetler

Chapter 2: Kangxi’s Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of Geographic
Integration in the Early Qing
Stephen Whiteman

Chapter 3: De-civilizing Ming China’s Southern Border: Vietnam as
Lost Province or Barbarian Culture
Kathlene Baldanza

Chapter 4: The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing in
Late Imperial China
Andrew Chittick

Chapter 5: Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Ming
and the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming Loyalist
Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang

Chapter 6: An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger Menace
Luke Hambleton

Chapter 7: The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang Province
Yajun Mo

Chapter 8: Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian’s Development, 1928-1941
Huei-Ying Kuo

Chapter 9: A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Gregory Rohlf

Chapter 10: Spatial Analysis and GIS Modeling of Regional Religious Systems in China: Conceptualization and Initial Experiments
Jiang Wu, Daoqin Tong, and Karl Ryavec

Epilogue: What is a Geographical Perspective on China’s History?
Peter K. Bol

Product details

Published 30 Jan 2013
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9798216204329
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 36 BW Photos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Yongtao Du

Anthology Editor

Jeff Kyong-McClain

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Peter K. Bol

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Andrew Chittick

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Luke Hambleton

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Laura Hostetler

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Huei-Ying Kuo

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Yajun Mo

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Gregory Rohlf

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Karl Ryavec

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Daoqin Tong

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Jiang Wu

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