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Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
- L. Hostetler
- History
- 2001
Laura Hostetler here shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early…
Global or Local? Exploring Connections between Chinese and European Geographical Knowledge During the Early Modern Period
- L. Hostetler
- Physics
- 2007
The term “global science”, from the session title of the workshop out of which this article grew, evokes the image of a global planisphere that occupied the third floor of the Paris observatory…
Qing Connections to the Early Modern World: Ethnography and Cartography in Eighteenth-Century China
- L. Hostetler
- HistoryModern Asian Studies
- 1 July 2000
‘Consulting literary sources is not as satisfactory as observation . . . If one wants to control the barbarian frontier area, one must judge the profitability of the land, and investigate the nature…
The art of ethnography : a Chinese "Miao album"
- David Deal, L. Hostetler
- History
- 2006
Preface / Charles F. McKhannAcknowledgments / Laura HostetlerIntroduction: Early Modern Ethnography in Comparative Historical Perspective / Laura HostetlerMap of Guizhou Province A Miao Album of…
GREGORY ELIYU GULDIN, The Saga of Anthropology in China From Malinowski to Moscow to Mao , Armonk, New York, and London, England: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. £55 (hardcover)/£19.95 (softcover).
- L. Hostetler
- History
- 1996
Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s Nouvelle [sic] Atlas de la Chine (1737), edited by Roberto M. Ribeiro, and John W. O’Malley
- L. Hostetler
- History
- 26 December 2015
Chinese ethnography in the eighteenth century : Miao albums of Guizhou province
- L. Hostetler
- Sociology
- 1995
Mapping, Registering, and Ordering
- L. Hostetler
- HistoryThe Oxford World History of Empire
- 3 March 2021
This chapter examines imperial initiatives in mapping space, registering people, and ordering knowledge. The author draws a distinction between the mapping practices of pre-modern or tributary…
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China . By Laura Hostetler. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xx, 257 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
- C. Giersch, L. Hostetler
- HistoryThe Journal of Asian Studies
- 1 May 2002
The story here is a "revolutionary process [of) localism, teachers, middle peasants, violence and incrementalism" (p. 269). The sources are rich, and the analysis persuasive. It continues the project…
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