9780804799966-0804799962-A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule

ISBN-13: 9780804799966
ISBN-10: 0804799962
Edition: 1
Author: Jonathan Schlesinger
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804799966
ISBN-10: 0804799962
Edition: 1
Author: Jonathan Schlesinger
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (ISBN-13: 9780804799966 and ISBN-10: 0804799962), written by authors Jonathan Schlesinger, was published by Stanford University Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources.

In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century―pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.

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