Nature and nurture on imperial China's frontiers

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 245-267

  Perdue, Peter C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL TRADITION; IMPERIALISM; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; POLITICAL HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 57049166139     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X07003356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley, 2003). This paper was also delivered at the Second International Conference on Environmental History held on November 8-10, 2006 and sponsored by the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. I am grateful for the comments received by Profs. Liu Ts'ui-jung, Lin Man-houng and other attendees of the conference.
2. Ibid. 17.
3. Ibid. 12-13.
4. Ibid. 55.
5. Victor B. Lieberman, ed., Beyond Binary Histories: Re-imagining Eurasia to ca. 1830 (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999). 52.
6. See also Victor B. Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830. Volume I: Integration on the Mainland, 2 vols., vol. 1 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003)., reviewed by P.C. Perdue in Social History, vol. 31 no. 3 Aug 2006, pp. 394-397.
7. Articles by Lieberman and myself forthcoming in the journal Social Science History will provide some comparative perspectives on China.
8. Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997).
9. For example, Pamela Kyle Crossley, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999),
10. Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu and Donald S. Sutton, Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethniciy, and Frontier in Early Modern China (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006), Mark C. Elliott, The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001),
11. C. Patterson Giersch, Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006),
12. Stevan Harrell, ed., Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1995),
13. Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001),
14. James A. Millward, Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1998),
15. Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005), John Robert Shepherd, Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1993),
16. Emma J. Teng, Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, MA, 2004).
17. Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendang and its Predecessors (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006),
18. Annlavra Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter C. Perdue, eds., Imperial Formations and their Discontents (School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2007),
19. Bradley J. Parker and Lars Rodseth, eds., Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2005),
20. Daniel Power and Naomi Standen, eds., Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands 700-1700 (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998).
21. Laozi, Tao Te Ching [Daodejing] (Bantam Books, New York, 1990). 39 [80] #30.
22. Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004),
23. Peter C. Perdue, Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987).
24. George M. Frederickson, Racism: A Short History (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002).
25. Further discussion in Peter C. Perdue, 'Erasing the Empire, Reracing the Nation: Racialism and Culturalism in Imperial China', in Imperial Formations and Their Discontents, eds., Annlavra Stoler, Carole McGranahan, Peter C. Perdue (2007).
26. Jonathan N. Lipman, "'A Fierce and Brutal People": On Islam and Muslims in Qing Law' in Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethniciy, and Frontier in Early Modern China, eds., Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Siu and Donald S. Sutton (2006).
27. Zeng Xian, Mingchen zouyi, Shanghai Yinshvguan, Shanghai (1935) 24: 18b-19a.
28. Cited in Fa-ti Fan, 'Nature and nation in Chinese political thought: The National Essence circle in early twentieth-century China', in The Moral Authority of Nature, eds., Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004).
29. Further discussion in Perdue, China Marches West. 470-476. An engaging narrative of the Zeng Jing case is Jonathan Spence, Treason by the Book (Viking, New York, 2001).
30. Elliott, The Manchu Way, Evelyn S. Rawski, The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998).
31. Thomas J. Barfield, The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China (Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1989). p. 51.
32. Sima Qian, Shiji (Taipei, Hangye Shuju, 1976) 110.2189, cited in Barfield, p. 52.
33. Talat Tekin, A grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1968). pp. 261-262.
34. For further discussion, see Peter C. Perdue, 'From Turfan to Taiwan: Trade and War on Two Chinese Frontiers', in Untaming the Frontier: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Studies, eds., Bradley J. Parker and Lars Rodseth (Tucson, 2005).
35. Maier, Among empires, p. 102.
36. Perdue, China Marches West, pp. 141-152.
37. Major studies include Murray A. Rubinstein, Taiwan: A New History (Armonk, NY, M. E. Sharpe, 1999), Shepherd, Taiwan Frontier, Teng, Travel Writing. See also the excellent summary in Richards, The Unending Frontier, pp. 89-111.
38. Lan Dingyuan, Pingtai Jilue (Taibei, Taiwan Yinhang, 1958).
39. Donald S. Sutton, 'Ethnicity and the Miao frontier in the eighteenth century', in Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China, eds., Pamela Kyle Crossley, Helen F. Sin and Donald S. Sutton (2006).
40. Ibid., 216.
41. Robert Darrah Jenks, Insurgency and Social Disorder in Guizhou: The "Miao" Rebellion, 1854-1873 (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994). p. 72.