Qing colonial enterprise : ethnography and cartography in early modern China
"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
History
xx, 257 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
9780226354200, 9780226354217, 0226354202, 0226354210
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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
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