A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, And The Natural Fringes Of Qing Rule,New Daniel E. From Picnics To Dinner Parties

From Picnics To Dinner Parties

So Put The Water On To Boil

Innovative Reassessment

Laugh And Learn

The Rebel Resistance Is Scattered

A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, And The Natural Fringes Of Qing Rule,New Daniel E. From Picnics To Dinner PartiesIn The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Booming Demand For Natural Resources Transformed China And Its Frontiers. Historians Of China Have Described This Process In Stark Terms: Pristine Borderlands Became Breadbaskets. Yet Manchu And Mongolian Archives Reveal A Different Story. Well Before Homesteaders Arrived, Wild Objects From The Far North Became Part Of Elite Fashion, And Unprecedented Consumption Had Exhausted The Region'S Most Precious