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Commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating wor
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In Managing Frontiers in Qing China, historians and anthropologists explore China's imperial expansion in Inner Asia, focusing on early Qing empire-building in
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Pages: 385
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as
The Art of Ethnography
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Pages: 264
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Writing Travel in Central Asian History
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For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a w