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Chinese history in geographical perspective /

"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 pe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : the contested terrain of a geographical entity / Yongtao Du and Jeff Kyong-McClain
  • Early modern mapping at the Qing court : survey maps from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong reign periods / Laura Hostetler
  • Kangxi's auspicious empire : rhetorics of geographic integration in the early Qing / Stephen Whiteman
  • De-civilizing Ming China's southern border : Vietnam as lost province or barbarian culture / Kathlene Baldanza
  • The geography of dragon boat racing in late imperial China / Andrew Chittick
  • Writing personalized local history during the late Ming and the Ming-Qing transition : the case of a Ming loyalist / Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang
  • An ambush of tigers : a socio-ecological history of the Ming-Qing Fujian tiger menace / Luke Hambleton
  • The new frontier : Zhuang xueben and Xikang province / Yajun Mo
  • Native-place ties in transnational networks : overseas Chinese nationalism and Fujian's development, 1928-1941 / Huei-Ying Kuo
  • A preliminary investigation of the urban morphology of towns of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau / Gregory Rohlf
  • Spatial analysis and GIS modeling of regional religious systems in China : conceptualization and initial experiments / Jiang Wu, Daoqin Tong, and Karl Ryavec
  • Epilogue : what is a geographical perspective on China's history? / Peter K. Bol.