Reshaping the Frontier Landscape : Dongchuan in Eighteenth-Century Southwest China.

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 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 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 Temples -- Scholastic 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.

Fei HUANG examines the process of landscape making in Dongchuan, the key copper-mining region in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.

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