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A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing
- Title
- A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing / Jonathan Schlesinger.
- Author
- Schlesinger, Jonathan
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources. Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century?pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
- Subjects
- Restoration ecology
- Luxuries
- Natural resources
- China
- 1644-1912
- Restoration ecology > China > Manchuria > History
- Natural resources > Mongolia > History
- China > Kings and rulers > Social life and customs
- Restoration ecology > Mongolia > History
- Luxuries > China > History > 18th century
- Qing Dynasty (China)
- China > Manchuria
- China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
- Mongolia
- Natural resources > China > Manchuria > History
- Luxuries > China > History > 19th century
- Kings and rulers > Social life and customs
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The view from Beijing -- Pearl thieves and perfect order -- The mushroom crisis -- The nature of fur -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Fur tribute submissions, 1771-1910.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3372
- ISBN
- 9780804799966
- 0804799962
- LCCN
- 2016015575
- OCLC
- 949553258
- Author
- Schlesinger, Jonathan, author.
- Title
- A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing / Jonathan Schlesinger.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1644-1912
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3372