{"product_id":"across-forest-steppe-and-mountain-9781107068841","title":"Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David A. Bello\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country's far-flung borderlands into the dynasty's expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan within a corporatist 'Han Chinese' imperial political order. This unprecedented imperial unification resulted in the great human and ecological diversity that exists today. Using natural science literature in conjunction with under-utilized and new sources in the Manchu language, Bello demonstrates how Qing expansion and consolidation of empire was dependent on a precise and intense manipulation of regional environmental relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46481281777815,"sku":"9781107068841","price":12594.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781107068841.jpg?v=1766312115","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/across-forest-steppe-and-mountain-9781107068841","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}