Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China

Download or read book Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China written by Fei HUANG and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.