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Book SynopsisIn Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.
Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier Dongchuan and Northeastern Yunnan A Landscape Studies Approach Landscape in the Empire’s Frontier The Sources Procedure 1 Paving the Way Mountain and Road Inside and Outside of the River The Jinsha River and the Copper Transports Conclusion 2 Valley and Mountain Moving from the Mountains into the Bazi 1700–1730s War: Completing the Bazi Spatial Network of the Copper Business Newcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape Transformation Conclusion 3 The Walled City The Indigenous Strongholds on the Huize Bazi Building the Stone-Walled City Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Planning of an Ideal Civilized Walled City Conclusion 4 Ten Views The Scenic View Tradition Sightseeing, the New Gazetteer and the Ten Views The Ten Views and the Conventional Format The Ten Views, Local Geography and the Copper Transportation Conclusion 5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool The Mountain, the Temple and the Shrine Replacing the Dragon Cult Praying, Entertaining and Remembering Conclusion 6 Two Wenchang Temples Scholastic Good Fortune? Relocating to Auspicious Sites? “Huayizhai” or “Wanizhai”? Preventing Water Disasters Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People Conclusion 7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women The Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who Surrendered Shesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname “Fake” Han Chinese People or “Fake” Indigenous People Conclusion 8 The New Mansions Huiguan Associations in Frontier Building the Huiguan Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography
