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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain
• Subtitle: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands
• Author: David A. Bello
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9781107068841
• ISBN: 1107068843
• ID: 09527026
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 656 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 161 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. February 2016

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