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Book Reviews--China: From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.73(2), p.532
05/01/2014
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/114422
Abstract
Book Reviews--China This fascinating study documents a shift in the Qing lexicon of Indian geography from pluralistic divergence to growing standardization by the eve of the Anglo-Chinese wars, which engendered another subsequent change in which a comprehensive, synchronized view of the relationships between frontiers supplanted an earlier official approach that was more narrowly focused on individual regions. [...]Mosca argues, the government first failed to recognize British India as a credible threat before conflict escalated into war, and then also failed to plan coordinated countermeasures for the coastal and hinterland frontiers. Lexical variability was a dominant trend both before and during the Qing period, but the opposite phenomenon--reduction of source and lexical variance--was also a periodic occurrence in the history of Chinese geographical scholarship, since the emergence of an imperially sanctioned compilation was often accompanied by the subsequent destruction of variant versions and sources.
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- Title
- Book Reviews--China: From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
- Creators
- Xiuyu Wang
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.73(2), p.532
- Academic Unit
- History, Department of
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Ann Arbor
- Identifiers
- 99900547856601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review