Qing colonial enterprise : ethnography and cartography in early modern China / Laura Hostetler.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.Description: xx, 257 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226354202 (alk. paper)
- 9780226354200 (alk. paper)
- 0226354210 (pbk.)
- 9780226354217 (pbk.)
- 951/.03 21
- GN635.C5 H67 2001
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | GN635.C5 H67 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | TBC00004085 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-237) and index.
Cartography and ethnography as early 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.
"In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its expansionist 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."--Jacket.
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