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Author HUANG, Fei

Title Reshaping the Frontier Landscape
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Series Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 Ser
Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier; Dongchuan and Northeastern Yunnan; A Landscape Studies Approach; Landscape in the Empire's Frontier; The Sources; Procedure; Chapter 1 Paving the Way; Mountain and Road; Inside and Outside of the River; The Jinsha River and the Copper Transports; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Valley and Mountain; Moving from the Mountains into the Bazi; Completing the Bazi; Spatial Network of the Copper Business; Newcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape Transformation
ConclusionChapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool; The Mountain, the Temple and the Shrine; Replacing the Dragon Cult; Praying, Entertaining and Remembering; Conclusion
Chapter 6 Two Wenchang TemplesScholastic Good Fortune?; Relocating to Auspicious Sites?; "Huayizhai" or "Wanizhai"?; Preventing Water Disasters; Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People; Conclusion; Chapter 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; Chapter 8 The New Mansions; Huiguan Associations in Frontier; Building the Huiguan; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject City planning-China-Kunming Shi-History-18th century
Copper industry and trade-China-Kunming Shi-History-18th century
Dongchuan Qu (Kunming Shi, China)-History-18th century
Landscape changes-China-Kunming Shi-History-18th century
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ISBN 9789004362567
9004362568