{"product_id":"chinese-history-in-geographical-perspective-paperback","title":"Chinese History in Geographical Perspective - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYongtao Du\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJeff Kyong-McClain\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKathlene Baldanza\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state's persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former \"outer zones\" in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of \"all-under-heaven\" to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call 'China.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYongtao Du is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Oklahoma State University. His research interests include translocal practices in late imperial China and literati geographic consciousness in China during the Song through the Qing. He received a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeff Kyong-McClain is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research explores the place of archeology in nation-building in modern China, Sino-Western interaction in China's borderlands, and urban transformations during the Republican era. He received his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8.85 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776224133408,"sku":"9781498510929","price":104.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/eb8cb7b0339c92c65a8441482c25367b.webp?v=1780474979","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/chinese-history-in-geographical-perspective-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}