A World Trimmed with Fur : Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule / / Jonathan Schlesinger

• Autore: Schlesinger Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 951/.03
• Soggetto topico: Luxuries - China - History - 18th century; Luxuries - China - History - 19th century; Natural resources - China - Manchuria - History; Natural resources - Mongolia - History; Restoration ecology - China - Manchuria - History; Restoration ecology - Mongolia - History
• Soggetto geografico: China Kings and rulers Social life and customs; China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: NO 8500
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A World Trimmed with Fur
• ISBN: 1-5036-0068-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154628503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II