{"product_id":"reshaping-the-frontier-landscape-dongchuan-in-eighteenth-century-southwest-china-9789004362291","title":"Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210747470167,"sku":"9789004362291","price":88.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reshaping-the-frontier-landscape-dongchuan-in-eighteenth-century-southwest-china-9789004362291","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}