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Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
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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.

Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate, to-scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic writings, such as the illustrated manuscripts known as "Miao albums" (from which twenty color paintings are reproduced in this book). These were intended to educate Qing officials about various non-Han peoples in the interest of more effective governance.

Hostetler's groundbreaking account will interest anyone studying the history of the early modern period and colonialism.

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  • Title Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
  • Author Laura Hostetler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Qing Colonial En
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, USA
  • Date December 15, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226354217 / 0226354210
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 6.8 x 0.63 in (22.56 x 17.27 x 1.60 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.03

About the author

Laura Hostetler is assistant professor in and associate chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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