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, ...
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.
作者简介
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Jonathan Schlesinger is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University.
目录
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Introduction
1 The View from Beijing
2 Pearl Thieves and Perfect Order
3 The Mushroom Crisis
4 The Nature in the Land of Fur
Conclusion
Introduction
1 The View from Beijing
2 Pearl Thieves and Perfect Order
3 The Mushroom Crisis
4 The Nature in the Land of Fur
Conclusion
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Yet the “ecological shadow” of the era’s rushes was unprecedented.198 There was no extensive sea cucumber trade in 1700; no Pacific fur trade; no sandalwood trade beyond Southeast Asia; no largescale jade mines in Xinjiang or Burma, tin mines on the Malay peninsula, or significant gold mining in Mongolia, Ili, or Borneo; and no Chinese copper mines to dominate northern Vietnam. Pearl oysters abounded on the shores of Borneo and the Philippine Islands; turtles and sea cucumber thrived throughout the seas of Southeast Asia. Fueled by the Qing demand for natural resources in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Inner Asia, Southeast Asia, and the greater Pacific began to face similar challenges. (查看原文)
延续自2016年以来新清史与环境史结合的取向，美国印第安纳大学布鲁明顿分校历史系助理教授谢健（Jonathan Schlesinger）的新著《皮草妆点的世界：清朝治下的野物、净土与自然边缘》（A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing...
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我导师说这本书说服了他为什么material culture is significant to Qing history. 所以我又找来比较认真地看了第Intro 和 1、2、4章，确实感觉比当年读中译本的时候阅读体验好很多。以下不是书评，是我为了资格考的潦草总结。因为时间有限，可能有很多typo和语法错误，请多海涵...
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0 有用 栞 2017-12-27 04:00:40
好棒！环境史+新清史+全球史。一种超越nation-state的界限研究近代历史的方法，一种重新反思modernity的可能性！
0 有用 日格洞人 2018-09-30 23:29:30
觉得思路与David Bello类似而没有超越前者
1 有用 Kalpa 2019-02-06 23:03:06
很多假设和原型（prototype）都有很重的、基于美国历史和传统的环境史的影子。当然不是说不能应用到中国的语境中，然而难免张冠李戴的错位感
9 有用 sanbilly 2017-01-15 19:23:17
在方法和课题上来看，可以说是David Bello新书的姊妹篇了。不过读起来要更加顺畅、明了。早先我就读过他的博士论文了，而且我自己也搞环境史，也做过东北旱獭毛皮贸易的研究，对新清史也有一点粗浅的了解，所以对我来说，除了提供了如何把博士论文改成专著的范本之外， 这本书并没有什么特别惊艳之处。谢健利用满蒙资料将对东珠、外蒙口蘑、乌梁海毛皮贸易的控制和在地环境的保护放在清自身的帝国和边疆特质下考察，也... 在方法和课题上来看，可以说是David Bello新书的姊妹篇了。不过读起来要更加顺畅、明了。早先我就读过他的博士论文了，而且我自己也搞环境史，也做过东北旱獭毛皮贸易的研究，对新清史也有一点粗浅的了解，所以对我来说，除了提供了如何把博士论文改成专著的范本之外， 这本书并没有什么特别惊艳之处。谢健利用满蒙资料将对东珠、外蒙口蘑、乌梁海毛皮贸易的控制和在地环境的保护放在清自身的帝国和边疆特质下考察，也将其纳入到全球环境史的比较研究中去，认为清帝国的边疆环境危机和环境保护措施，跟同时期欧美国家有着类似性和全球背景context。不过这类近代早期史研究主要关注同时段背景下的比较comparision, 我自己的研究关注的是近现代的全球联系global connection,志趣还是有很大不同 (展开)
3 有用 murmur 2018-03-16 03:45:18
东北人爱貂，古而有之。读此书脑中浮现的是康熙王朝里老年陈道明一身貂装，俯瞰大好河山。
1 有用 Binns 2024-08-09 23:25:06 中国台湾
體量短小，行文精彩，敘事高超，以東珠、口蘑（及人參）、毛皮三種物品爲切入點講故事：超越帝國邊境及内部邊界的全球化貿易帶來了同樣超越邊界的環境問題，而清政府嘗試通過官僚化地破壞帝國統治方式的途徑解決，最終失敗。不足之處：材料性質所限，邊地的bottom up實際仍然是北京中心的；作者對各地非漢語史料的廣汎利用比較粗放；對僅僅引入視角，研究主體部分對環境史、全球史的涉獵稍淺。
0 有用 Talva 2024-05-09 05:48:54 美国
Approach is good, could've delved deeper into some discussions though. e.g. the changing idea of Manchu homeland
0 有用 Hayashiiii 2024-02-14 12:35:02 美国
materials as measures of an age
0 有用 薛定谔的豆瓣 2023-11-22 11:31:50 中国台湾
读了其中几章
0 有用 夜眼陳 2023-07-29 14:35:29 中国香港
最荒涼的地方與最繁榮的都市，同樣可以是人為建構的結果