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The Wooden Sinews of Empire: Forestry, Indigenous Elites, and the Incorporation of Southeastern Guizhou, 1726-1949
The Wooden Sinews of Empire: Forestry, Indigenous Elites, and the Incorporation of Southeastern Guizhou, 1726-1949
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105121
- ISBN
- 9798293817863
- DDC
- 950
- 서명/저자
- The Wooden Sinews of Empire: Forestry, Indigenous Elites, and the Incorporation of Southeastern Guizhou, 1726-1949
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Chicago, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 321 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Pomeranz, Kenneth.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation is an account of how the Qing empire (1644-1911) and their Republican successors incorporated the Qingshui river basin of southeastern Guizhou province and its forest resources. Before the Yongzheng emperor's campaign of incorporation in the early-eighteenth century, indigenous villages only had intermittent contact with state authorities, and the region's forest resources were lightly exploited. Imperial rule was aided by the presence of small native chieftaincies and isolated colonial settlements. However, by the mid-nineteenth century, the political, economic and environmental landscape of the region was transformed. Local and regional elites, who owned and cultivated intensive plantations, sent timber downstream to intermediate markets in large quantities. These elites mobilized indigenous political traditions and texts documenting customary practices relating to the timber industry in appeals to magistrates, securing a sphere that was separated from downstream Han traders and migrants. The villages and towns they inhabited became the new political and economic centers that anchored the region through the turbulence of rebellion, regime change, and globalization in markets for timber. The Qing central state thus managed to secure a region that was fraught with risk for inter-ethnic strife and disorder inimical to its role as a supplier of timber for downstream consumers.I argue that the conditions seen by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Qingshui river basin were achieved by two means. The first is that Qing magistrates worked with elites who emerged from the timber trade to protect customs and practices that favored indigenous traders and wage workers. These customs and practices created pathways for social and economic mobility, and aided in the retention of surpluses generated from the trade within the region through wage work and profits from arbitrage. Second, magistrates and elites found ways to incorporate indigenous political traditions, such as the kuanyue village alliance, into formal structures of Qing sub-country administration. These hybrid institutions provided a venue for sustained engagement between indigenous political elites and magistrates.This dissertation builds on a group of primary sources called the Qingshui river documents (Qingshuijiang wenshu 清水江文书), which includes thousands of private documents (minjian wenshu 民间文书) from household and village collections in the Qingshui river basin of southeastern Guizhou. The vast majority of these documents are buy-and-sale and tenancy contracts related to the timber trade. These documents contain information seen in studies of contracts elsewhere in China, indicating the reasons for sales; the native place of tenants, landlords, buyers and sellers; sale prices; property names and boundaries, and shares sold or promised to tenants. Though there is a formulaic quality to these contracts, with very little information to contextualize any given transaction, they remain useful for making generalizable assessments of forestry in the Qingshui river basin over long periods of time. In this study, these contracts are thus supplemented by smaller numbers of disputes, letters, orders, and stele inscriptions, which are more useful for setting these documents in their wider social, economic and political contexts. I have also consulted relevant documents from the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the Shanghai Municipal Archives, the Toyo Bunko and Mitsui Bunko in Tokyo, and the special collections of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington. These sources enabled this dissertation to study the social and political institutions that helped sustain both forestry and Qing rule, and extend the study's temporal and geographic scope into the inter-war period, and the wider Pacific basin.This study makes three primary contributions to the existing scholarly literature. First, it attempts to provide both highly textured individual and generalizable descriptions of how the timber industry worked in practice from a regional standpoint in the Qingshui river basin, through close readings of individual cases and basic statistical analysis of timber contracts. Specifically, it makes contributions to our understanding of the liquidity of timber shares at the village level-where most buyers and sellers actually operated-and the range of returns that was possible for indigenous merchants within the context of the Qingshui river basin's protected markets. Second, it traces how the timber industry and magistrates worked with customary law and indigenous political traditions to regulate markets in the Qing. Using the large amount of regulatory steles, copies of magistrate's proclamations, and legal cases that were preserved in the region, this study shows that magistrates operated with significant latitude to protect local economic interests, and worked with local actors to accommodate existing customs and traditions within the formal structures within which they were constrained.The dissertation begins by accounting for the emergence of these documents. Miao and Dong villages, which previously had limited contact with the Qing state. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest).
- 일반주제명
- Asian history
- 일반주제명
- Asian studies
- 일반주제명
- History
- 키워드
- Dong
- 키워드
- Forestry
- 키워드
- Guizhou
- 키워드
- Miao
- 키워드
- Qing
- 키워드
- Timber
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThis dissertation is an account of how the Qing empire (1644-1911) and their Republican successors incorporated the Qingshui river basin of southeastern Guizhou province and its forest resources. Before the Yongzheng emperor's campaign of incorporation in the early-eighteenth century, indigenous villages only had intermittent contact with state authorities, and the region's forest resources were lightly exploited. Imperial rule was aided by the presence of small native chieftaincies and isolated colonial settlements. However, by the mid-nineteenth century, the political, economic and environmental landscape of the region was transformed. Local and regional elites, who owned and cultivated intensive plantations, sent timber downstream to intermediate markets in large quantities. These elites mobilized indigenous political traditions and texts documenting customary practices relating to the timber industry in appeals to magistrates, securing a sphere that was separated from downstream Han traders and migrants. The villages and towns they inhabited became the new political and economic centers that anchored the region through the turbulence of rebellion, regime change, and globalization in markets for timber. The Qing central state thus managed to secure a region that was fraught with risk for inter-ethnic strife and disorder inimical to its role as a supplier of timber for downstream consumers.I argue that the conditions seen by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Qingshui river basin were achieved by two means. The first is that Qing magistrates worked with elites who emerged from the timber trade to protect customs and practices that favored indigenous traders and wage workers. These customs and practices created pathways for social and economic mobility, and aided in the retention of surpluses generated from the trade within the region through wage work and profits from arbitrage. Second, magistrates and elites found ways to incorporate indigenous political traditions, such as the kuanyue village alliance, into formal structures of Qing sub-country administration. These hybrid institutions provided a venue for sustained engagement between indigenous political elites and magistrates.This dissertation builds on a group of primary sources called the Qingshui river documents (Qingshuijiang wenshu 清水江文书), which includes thousands of private documents (minjian wenshu 民间文书) from household and village collections in the Qingshui river basin of southeastern Guizhou. The vast majority of these documents are buy-and-sale and tenancy contracts related to the timber trade. These documents contain information seen in studies of contracts elsewhere in China, indicating the reasons for sales; the native place of tenants, landlords, buyers and sellers; sale prices; property names and boundaries, and shares sold or promised to tenants. Though there is a formulaic quality to these contracts, with very little information to contextualize any given transaction, they remain useful for making generalizable assessments of forestry in the Qingshui river basin over long periods of time. In this study, these contracts are thus supplemented by smaller numbers of disputes, letters, orders, and stele inscriptions, which are more useful for setting these documents in their wider social, economic and political contexts. I have also consulted relevant documents from the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the Shanghai Municipal Archives, the Toyo Bunko and Mitsui Bunko in Tokyo, and the special collections of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Washington. These sources enabled this dissertation to study the social and political institutions that helped sustain both forestry and Qing rule, and extend the study's temporal and geographic scope into the inter-war period, and the wider Pacific basin.This study makes three primary contributions to the existing scholarly literature. First, it attempts to provide both highly textured individual and generalizable descriptions of how the timber industry worked in practice from a regional standpoint in the Qingshui river basin, through close readings of individual cases and basic statistical analysis of timber contracts. Specifically, it makes contributions to our understanding of the liquidity of timber shares at the village level-where most buyers and sellers actually operated-and the range of returns that was possible for indigenous merchants within the context of the Qingshui river basin's protected markets. Second, it traces how the timber industry and magistrates worked with customary law and indigenous political traditions to regulate markets in the Qing. Using the large amount of regulatory steles, copies of magistrate's proclamations, and legal cases that were preserved in the region, this study shows that magistrates operated with significant latitude to protect local economic interests, and worked with local actors to accommodate existing customs and traditions within the formal structures within which they were constrained.The dissertation begins by accounting for the emergence of these documents. Miao and Dong villages, which previously had limited contact with the Qing state. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest).
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■650 4▼aHistory
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■653 ▼aForestry
■653 ▼aGuizhou
■653 ▼aMiao
■653 ▼aQing
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