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The Wooden Sinews of Empire: Forestry, Indigenous Elites, and the Incorporation of Southeastern Guizhou, 1726-1949
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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
저자명  
Ante, Xavier Samuel Casanova.
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
기타저자  
The University of Chicago.
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
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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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