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Article: Qing colonial enterprise: ethnography and cartography in early modern China. (Book Reviews: Anthropology & History).(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- March 1, 2003
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HOSTETLER, LAURA, Qing colonial enterprise: ethnography and cartography in early modern China. xx, 257 pp., maps, figs., tables, plates, bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]22.50 (cloth)
Historians of China have tended to shy away from attempts to place China's development during the early modern period in the context of global developments. But as Hostetler seeks to show in this book, eighteenth-century China did not function in glorious isolation, and her thesis, at its most basic level, may be regarded as an attack on the theory of China's exclusivity. By tracing 'simultaneous developments in cartographic and ethnographic ...