Download or read book Transforming Inner Mongolia written by Yi Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of commercial expansion, land reclamation, and Catholic proselytism transformed the Mongol frontier long before it was officially colonized and incorporated into the Chinese state. Wang reconstructs the socioeconomic, cultural, and administrative history of Inner Mongolia at a time of unprecedented Chinese expansion into its peripheries and China’s integration into the global frameworks of capitalism and the nation-state. Introducing a peripheral and transregional dimension that links the local and regional processes to global ones, Wang places equal emphasis on broad macro-historical analysis and fine-grained micro-studies of particular regions and agents. She argues that border regions such as Inner Mongolia played a central role in China’s transformation from a multiethnic empire to a modern nation-state, serving as fertile ground for economic and administrative experimentation. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, and European sources, Wang integrates the two major trends in current Chinese historiography—new Qing frontier history and migration history—in an important contribution to the history of Inner Asia, border studies, and migrations.
Download or read book Transforming the Frontier Land Commerce and Chinese Colonization in Inner Mongolia 1700 1911 written by Yi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research is based on an array of source materials in Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, and European languages, including official archives, local gazetteers, survey reports, travelogues, stele inscriptions, folk songs, and oral accounts. It attempts to recreate the socio-economic tapestry of Inner Mongolia by weaving together a multitude of actors (Han merchants and farmers, Mongol nobles and nomads, Catholic missionaries and converts, and Manchu and Han officials) who became involved in the processes of long-distance trade, land reclamation, community building, and state making. Many of these threads remain underexplored in earlier historiographies that largely focus on the Qing empire-building or relations between Manchu and Mongols, nomadic and settled. By restoring agency to this spectrum of actors, while at the same time addressing issues central to our understanding of late imperial and modern China, this study contributes to the current scholarship that studies the frontiers not only as regions in their own right, but also emphasizes their formative impact on the main course of Chinese history.
Download or read book Changing Inner Mongolia written by David Sneath and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolian minority there. It examines the effects of five decades of social engineering by the Chinese state, and explores the role of economic forms, ritual, symbolism, and ideology in the transformations and continuities of life on the inner Mongolian steppe.
Download or read book Beyond Great Walls written by Dee Mack Williams and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It provides a rare window of observation into a fascinating and important, though remote and relatively understudied, region of modern China, and documents some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development. Initially, the book presents a case study of land degradation and shows how competing social and cultural forces at the local, national, and international level actively shape that process. More broadly, it focuses on local experiences of modernization and the ways that marginalized people creatively appropriate alien technologies to serve their own ethnic identity and cultural renewal. The book aims to deepen our understanding of environmental change as a social process by exploring significant tensions between such symbolic dichotomies as Chinese/Mongol, farmer/herder, private/collective, development/conservation, Western/Asian, and scientific/indigenous. It argues that the reconstruction of local landscape cannot be separated from the social context of economic insecurity and political fear, nor from the cultural context of group identity and environmental symbolism. Ideologically informed perceptions of the land prove to be highly relevant in both shaping and contesting international development agendas, national grassland policies, and the daily practices of local production. In presenting the full range of material and symbolic stakes now in play on the Chinese grasslands, the book demonstrates that human-land interactions involve social dimensions on a global scale of widely underestimated complexity. Throughout, the author draws from his extensive fieldwork to enrich his study with poignant (and sometimes humorous) anecdotes and biographical sketches.
Download or read book Monasteries and Cultural Change in Inner Mongolia written by Robert James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imperial Creation of Ethnicity written by Liping Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Inner Mongolian cases, this book explains the attenuation of inter-ethnic solidarity in the critical period of Chinese imperial transformation (1900-1930). It engages the key issues related to imperial organization, elite politics, and ethnic relationship. The book will attract a large audience in comparative sociology, empire and ethnic studies.
Download or read book Monasteries and culture change in Inner Mongolia written by Robert James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transformation of Pastoral Nomadism in Inner Mongolia written by Oscar Frederick Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia written by Rebecca M. Empson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 10 years ago the mineral-rich country of Mongolia experienced very rapid economic growth, fuelled by China’s need for coal and copper. New subjects, buildings, and businesses flourished, and future dreams were imagined and hoped for. This period of growth is, however, now over. Mongolia is instead facing high levels of public and private debt, conflicts over land and sovereignty, and a changed political climate that threatens its fragile democratic institutions. Subjective Lives and Economic Transformations in Mongolia details this complex story through the intimate lives of five women. Building on long-term friendships, which span over 20 years, Rebecca documents their personal journeys in an ever-shifting landscape. She reveals how these women use experiences of living a ‘life in the gap’ to survive the hard reality between desired outcomes and their actual daily lives. In doing so, she offers a completely different picture from that presented by economists and statisticians of what it is like to live in this fluctuating extractive economy.
Download or read book Cowboys And Cultivators written by Burton Pasternak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China, to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia.
Download or read book Frontier Encounters written by Franck Billé and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Despite their proximity, their interactions with each other - and with their third neighbour Mongolia - are rarely discussed. Although the three countries share a boundary, their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China's search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia's fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful resources. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists and economists, this timely collection of essays offers new perspectives on an area that is currently of enormous economic, strategic and geo-political relevance.
Download or read book Ethnicizing the Frontier Imperial Transformation and Ethnic Confrontations in China Inner Mongolia 1890s 1930s written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines the emergence of three types of Mongol-Han confrontation in Inner Mongolia in the period of Chinese imperial transition (1890s-1930s). Three local exigencies, namely, private land cultivation, jurisdictional vacuum and Russian territorial expansion, which vividly embodied the general imperial crisis in the Mongolian frontier, prompted the late Qing government to readjust its frontier tactics and consequently induced restructuring of local governing relationships in three ecological zones. The multifarious Mongol-Han confrontations largely came out of these local processes of political restructuring. I use a wide range of sources, including the archives of the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs, the archives of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, the imperial officials' memorials, local gazetteers, printed legal archives, foreigners' travelogues and so on, to development my arguments. While the current sociology of empire offers many insights into the distinction between empire and nation-state, particularly by assessing the merits and demerits of the two, my study questions such a distinction. It affirms that the Mongol-Han confrontations occurred at the critical conjuncture when the Qing empire gave way to a nascent Chinese republic. Yet, the weak and inchoate Republic of China continuously relied on the remnant imperial elites to run frontier politics, and, due to its internal fragmentation, was not able to propagate any strong national ideology. Henceforth, the institutional incentives for state elites to systematically homogenize their subjects, as is frequently seen in other post-imperial states (like Turkey and Russia), are rather limited in the China case. My study therefore questions the macro institutional explanations provided by the center-periphery model to the causes and timing of minority ethnic mobilizations in empires. Moreover, because the specific exigencies that catalyzed the political reshuffling varied in these three contexts, also did the local governing relationships, the actual meanings of Mongol-Han confrontation were different in these three zones. My study thus dissolves the imagined uniformity of the Mongols, and emphasizes that not all of the Mongol-Han interactions were fraught with the longstanding antagonism derived from the "natural hostility" between nomads and sedentary people.
Download or read book A Monastery in Time written by Caroline Humphrey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed tell a story of religious formation, suppression, and survival over a history that spans three centuries. Often overlooked in Buddhist studies, Mongolian Buddhism is an impressively self-sustaining tradition whose founding lama, the Third Mergen Gegen, transformed Tibetan Buddhism into an authentic counterpart using the Mongolian language. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Humphrey and Ujeed show how lamas have struggled to keep Mergen Gegen’s vision alive through tremendous political upheaval, and how such upheaval has inextricably fastened politics to religion for many of today’s practicing monks. Exploring the various ways Mongolian Buddhists have attempted to link the past, present, and future, Humphrey and Ujeed offer a compelling study of the interplay between the individual and the state, tradition and history.
Download or read book Inner Mongolia written by Bingxun Xu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topomorphic Revolution Power and Identity written by Anne-Sophie Pratte and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My thesis is the study of landscape transformations in the Tongliao region of Inner Mongolia, their driving forces and their implications in terms of social organization and identity. I first examine the mechanisms through which the Qing Empire exercised power over the land and circumscribed the notion of a "Mongol Identity" through the mapping of the territory, the restriction of migration and the imposition of a particular legal code. Then, I look into the transition from empire to nation-state in the first part of the twentieth century, and show that the transformation of political institutions had a limited disruptive impact on pastoralism. Finally, I document the dramatic transformations of the landscape that took place in the post-Mao era from the early 1980s to the 2000s--which I call "topomorphic revolution." I find that, by shaping the space and setting boundaries in the territories, empires and nation-states successively set the terms for the Mongol ethnic identity, and transformed the social norms and power relations prevailing in the society of the Tongliao area in Inner Mongolia. " --
Download or read book Statistics on Achievements of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in Economic and Cultural Construction written by China. Guo jia tong ji ju and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it. Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit the damage. The book gives its view on the Chinese approach to the study of grasslands and the relevance of this activity in China to global scientific concerns.
