Reshaping the Frontier Landscape

Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements

Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier â Dongchuan and Northeastern Yunnan â A Landscape Studies Approach â Landscape in the Empire's Frontier â The Sources â Procedure

1 Paving the Way â Mountain and Road â Inside and Outside of the River â The Jinsha River and the Copper Transports â Conclusion

2 Valley and Mountain â Moving from the Mountains into the Bazi â 1700-1730s War: Completing the Bazi â Spatial Network of the Copper Business â Newcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape Transformation â Conclusion

3 The Walled City â The Indigenous Strongholds on the Huize Bazi â Building the Stone-Walled City â Top-Down or Bottom-Up? â The Planning of an Ideal Civilized Walled City â Conclusion

4 Ten Views â The Scenic View Tradition â Sightseeing, the New Gazetteer and the Ten Views â The Ten Views and the Conventional Format â The Ten Views, Local Geography and the Copper Transportation â Conclusion

5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool â The Mountain, the Temple and the Shrine â Replacing the Dragon Cult â Praying, Entertaining and Remembering â Conclusion

6 Two Wenchang Temples â Scholastic Good Fortune? â Relocating to Auspicious Sites? â "Huayizhai" or "Wanizhai"? â Preventing Water Disasters â Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People â Conclusion

7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women â The Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who Surrendered â Shesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname â "Fake" Han Chinese People or "Fake" Indigenous People â Conclusion

8 The New Mansions â Huiguan Associations in Frontier â Building the Huiguan â Conclusion

Conclusion

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