Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain Bello Hardback Cambridge University Press

Across Forest, Steppe, and MountainEnvironment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands\nAuthor(s): David A. Bello\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107068841, 978-1107068841\nSynopsis\nIn this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing [tel], 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 ho.