A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing

Title
  1. A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing / Jonathan Schlesinger.
Published by
  1. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Schlesinger, Jonathan

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Description
  1. xii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Restoration ecology
  2. Luxuries
  3. Natural resources
  4. China
  5. 1644-1912
  6. Restoration ecology > China > Manchuria > History
  7. Natural resources > Mongolia > History
  8. China > Kings and rulers > Social life and customs
  9. Restoration ecology > Mongolia > History
  10. Luxuries > China > History > 18th century
  11. Qing Dynasty (China)
  12. China > Manchuria
  13. China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
  14. Mongolia
  15. Natural resources > China > Manchuria > History
  16. Luxuries > China > History > 19th century
  17. Kings and rulers > Social life and customs
  18. History
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFE 17-3372
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
Author
  1. Schlesinger, Jonathan, author.
Title
  1. A world trimmed with fur : wild things, pristine places, and the natural fringes of Qing / Jonathan Schlesinger.
Publisher
  1. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Copyright date
  1. ©2017
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1644-1912
LCCN
  1. 2016015575
ISBN
  1. 9780804799966 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  2. 0804799962 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 17-3372
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