Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

Yongtao Du is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include translocal practices in late imperial China and literati geographic consciousness in China during the Song through the Qing. He received a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Jeff Kyong-McClain is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research explores the place of archeology in nation-building in modern China, Sino-Western interaction in China's borderlands, and urban transformations during the Republican era. He received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.

• Introduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical EntityYongtao Du and Jeff Kyong-McClainChapter 1: Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Mapsfrom the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign PeriodsLaura HostetlerChapter 2: Kangxi’s Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of GeographicIntegration in the Early QingStephen WhitemanChapter 3: De-civilizing Ming China’s Southern Border: Vietnam asLost Province or Barbarian CultureKathlene BaldanzaChapter 4: The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing inLate Imperial ChinaAndrew ChittickChapter 5: Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Mingand the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming LoyalistXiaoquan Raphael ZhangChapter 6: An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger MenaceLuke Hambleton Chapter 7: The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang ProvinceYajun MoChapter 8: Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian’s Development, 1928-1941Huei-Ying KuoChapter 9: A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet PlateauGregory RohlfChapter 10: Spatial Analysis and GIS Modeling of Regional Religious Systems in China: Conceptualization and Initial ExperimentsJiang Wu, Daoqin Tong, and Karl RyavecEpilogue: What is a Geographical Perspective on China’s History?Peter K. Bol