Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China

Fei HUANG, Ph.D. (2012, Leiden University), is junior professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She has published articles on Chinese history in New History Journal, Late Imperial China, and Journal of Asian History.

• AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Landscape and the Imperial FrontierDongchuan and Northeastern YunnanA Landscape Studies ApproachLandscape in the Empire’s FrontierThe SourcesProcedure1 Paving the WayMountain and RoadInside and Outside of the RiverThe Jinsha River and the Copper TransportsConclusion2 Valley and MountainMoving from the Mountains into the Bazi1700–1730s War: Completing the BaziSpatial Network of the Copper BusinessNewcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape TransformationConclusion3 The Walled CityThe Indigenous Strongholds on the Huize BaziBuilding the Stone-Walled CityTop-Down or Bottom-Up?The Planning of an Ideal Civilized Walled CityConclusion4 Ten ViewsThe Scenic View TraditionSightseeing, the New Gazetteer and the Ten ViewsThe Ten Views and the Conventional FormatThe Ten Views, Local Geography and the Copper TransportationConclusion5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon PoolThe Mountain, the Temple and the ShrineReplacing the Dragon CultPraying, Entertaining and RememberingConclusion6 Two Wenchang TemplesScholastic Good Fortune?Relocating to Auspicious Sites?“Huayizhai” or “Wanizhai”?Preventing Water DisastersContesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous PeopleConclusion7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous WomenThe Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who SurrenderedShesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname“Fake” Han Chinese People or “Fake” Indigenous PeopleConclusion8 The New MansionsHuiguan Associations in FrontierBuilding the HuiguanConclusionConclusionBibliography