Qing Colonial Enterprise
Subtitle: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226354200
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History; History - General History; History: World; Anthropology - Cultural; Asia - China; Cartography; Technology / Cartography; Asia - General; China; Colonization; Ethnology; Social life and customs
First sentence: During the century spanning 1660-1760, the Qing empire doubled the amount of territory it controlled.
Description: "In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its expansionist imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe - and its colonial empires - at the time."--BOOK JACKET.