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Chinese History in Geographical Perspective
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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.'
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical Entity
- Chapter 1 Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Maps from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign Periods
- Chapter 2 Kangxi’s Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of Geographic Integration in the Early Qing
- Chapter 3 De-civilizing Ming China’s Southern Border: Vietnam as Lost Province or Barbarian Culture
- Chapter 4 The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing in Late Imperial China
- Chapter 5 Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Ming and the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming Loyalist
- Chapter 6 An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger Menace
- Chapter 7 The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang Province
- Chapter 8 Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian’s Development, 1928–1941
- Chapter 9 A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- Chapter 10 Spatial Analysis and GIS Modeling of Regional Religious Systems in China: Conceptualization and Initial Experiments
- Epilogue: What Is a Geographical Perspective on China’s History?
- About the Contributors