Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain

In this book, David Bello offers a new and radical interpretation of how China''s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), relied on the interrelationship between ecology and ethnicity to incorporate the country''s far-flung borderlands into the dynasty''s expanding empire. The dynasty tried to manage the sustainable survival and compatibility of discrete borderland ethnic regimes in Manchuria, Inner M...