{"product_id":"chinese-history-in-geographical-perspective-9780739172308","title":"Chinese History in Geographical Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former outer zones in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of all-under-heaven to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call ''China.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical Entity  Yongtao Du and Jeff Kyong-McClain  Chapter 1: Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Maps  from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign Periods  Laura Hostetler   Chapter 2: Kangxi’s Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of Geographic  Integration in the Early Qing  Stephen Whiteman   Chapter 3: De-civilizing Ming China’s Southern Border: Vietnam as  Lost Province or Barbarian Culture  Kathlene Baldanza   Chapter 4: The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing in  Late Imperial China  Andrew Chittick   Chapter 5: Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Ming  and the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming Loyalist  Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang  Chapter 6: An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger Menace Luke Hambleton   Chapter 7: The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang Province Yajun Mo  Chapter 8: Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian’s Development, 1928-1941 Huei-Ying Kuo  Chapter 9: A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Gregory Rohlf  Chapter 10: 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037512040791,"sku":"9780739172308","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-history-in-geographical-perspective-9780739172308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}