Qing Colonial Enterprise Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China

Name: Qing Colonial Enterprise Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
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ISBN: 9780226354217

ISBN-10: 0226354210

ISBN-13: 9780226354217

Edition: 2005

Authors: Laura Hostetler

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Laura Hostetler here shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe—and its colonial empires—at the time. Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Note on Romanization


List of Tables


Maps


Figures, and Color Plates


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Cartography and Ethnography as Early Modern Modes of Representation



The Qing Empire: Constructing a Place in the Eighteenth-Century World



Mapping Territory



Depicting Peoples



Bringing Guizhou into the Empire



The Development of Ethnographic Writing in Guizhou Province, 1560-1834



Miao Albums: The Emergence of a Distinct Ethnographic Genre



The Evolution of a Genre: Miao Albums as Art and Objects of Study


Conclusion


Appendix


Bibliographic Information on Miao Albums


List of Abbreviations


Bibliography of Works Cited


Glossary


Index