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Titolo: | Chinese history in geographical perspective [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeff Kyong-McClain and Yongtao Du |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina: | 951 |
Soggetto topico: | Nationalism - China - History |
Soggetto geografico: | China Historical geography |
China History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 | |
China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 | |
China History Republic, 1912-1949 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | Kyong-McClainJeff DuYongtao <1970-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | CHINESE HISTORY IN GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical Entity; 1. Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Maps from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign Periods; 2. Kangxi's Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of Geographic Integration in the Early Qing; 3. De-civilizing Ming China's Southern Border: Vietnam as Lost Province or Barbarian Culture; 4. The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing in Late Imperial China |
5. Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Ming and the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming Loyalist6. An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger Menace; 7. The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang Province; 8. Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian's Development, 1928-1941; 9. A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; 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?Index; About the Contributors | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume treats "China" first and foremost as an evolving and imagined geographical entity. The contributors explore China's last five hundred years of history using geography as a lens through which to approach such issues as sports, ethnography, cartography, religion, elite and popular culture, transnational networking, urban planning, and politics. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Chinese history in geographical perspective |
ISBN: | 1-299-31616-6 |
0-7391-7231-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465115303321 |
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