03637nam 22006255 450 991015462850332120200723103303.01-5036-0068-810.1515/9781503600683(CKB)4340000000018498(MiAaPQ)EBC4749832(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718787(DE-B1597)564688(DE-B1597)9781503600683(OCoLC)1178770325(EXLCZ)99434000000001849820200723h20202017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA World Trimmed with Fur Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule /Jonathan SchlesingerStanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]©20171 online resource (288 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-8047-9996-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transcription Conventions -- Introduction -- One. The View from Beijing -- Two. Pearl Thieves and Perfect Order -- Three. The Mushroom Crisis -- Four. Nature in the Land of Fur -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Fur Tribute Submissions, 1771–1910 -- Notes -- List of Chinese Terms -- Works Cited -- INDEX In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century—pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.LuxuriesChinaHistory18th centuryLuxuriesChinaHistory19th centuryNatural resourcesChinaManchuriaHistoryNatural resourcesMongoliaHistoryRestoration ecologyChinaManchuriaHistoryRestoration ecologyMongoliaHistoryChinaKings and rulersSocial life and customsChinaHistoryQing dynasty, 1644-1912Electronic books.LuxuriesHistoryLuxuriesHistoryNatural resourcesHistory.Natural resourcesHistory.Restoration ecologyHistory.Restoration ecologyHistory.951/.03NO 8500BVBrvkSchlesinger Jonathan, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut781227DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910154628503321A World Trimmed with Fur2800753UNINA