Milk, Game or Grain for a Manchurian Outpost
Abstract The long record of imperial China’s Inner Asian borderland relations is not simply multi-ethnic, but ‘multi-environmental’. Human dependencies on livestock, wild animals and cereal cultivars were the prerequisite environmental relations for borderland incorporation. This paper examines such...
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crbrillap:10.1163/22105018-12340090 2023-05-15T16:09:17+02:00 Milk, Game or Grain for a Manchurian Outpost Providing for Hulun Buir’s Multi-Environmental Garrison in an Eighteenth-Century Borderland Bello, David 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340090 https://brill.com/view/journals/inas/19/2/article-p240_240.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/inas/19/2/article-p240_240.xml unknown Brill Inner Asia volume 19, issue 2, page 240-273 ISSN 1464-8172 2210-5018 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Development Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2017 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-12340090 2022-12-11T12:46:24Z Abstract The long record of imperial China’s Inner Asian borderland relations is not simply multi-ethnic, but ‘multi-environmental’. Human dependencies on livestock, wild animals and cereal cultivars were the prerequisite environmental relations for borderland incorporation. This paper examines such dependencies during the Qing Dynasty’s (1644–1912) establishment of the Manchurian garrison of Hulun Buir near the Qing border with Russia. Garrison logistics proved challenging because provisioning involved several indigenous groups—Solon-Ewenki, Bargut and Dagur (Daur)—who did not uniformly subsist on livestock, game or grain, but instead exhibited several, sometimes overlapping, practices not always confined within a single ethnicity. Ensuing deliberations reveal official convictions, some of which can be traced back to the preceding Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), regarding the variable effects of these practices on the formation of Inner Asian military identities. Such issues were distinctive of Qing borderland dynamics that constructed ‘Chinese’ empire not only in more diverse human society, but also in more diverse ecological spheres. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ewenki Brill (via Crossref) Inner Asia 19 2 240 273 |
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Abstract The long record of imperial China’s Inner Asian borderland relations is not simply multi-ethnic, but ‘multi-environmental’. Human dependencies on livestock, wild animals and cereal cultivars were the prerequisite environmental relations for borderland incorporation. This paper examines such dependencies during the Qing Dynasty’s (1644–1912) establishment of the Manchurian garrison of Hulun Buir near the Qing border with Russia. Garrison logistics proved challenging because provisioning involved several indigenous groups—Solon-Ewenki, Bargut and Dagur (Daur)—who did not uniformly subsist on livestock, game or grain, but instead exhibited several, sometimes overlapping, practices not always confined within a single ethnicity. Ensuing deliberations reveal official convictions, some of which can be traced back to the preceding Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), regarding the variable effects of these practices on the formation of Inner Asian military identities. Such issues were distinctive of Qing borderland dynamics that constructed ‘Chinese’ empire not only in more diverse human society, but also in more diverse ecological spheres. |
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