Name: A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (en Inglés)
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Author: Jonathan Schlesinger
ISBN: 9781503610118

portada A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Jonathan Schlesinger

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781503610118

N° edición

Categorías

China
Historia de asia

A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (en Inglés)

Jonathan Schlesinger (Autor) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (en Inglés)"

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. In A World Trimmed with Fur, 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.