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Qing Connections to the Early Modern World: Ethnography and Cartography in Eighteenth-Century China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2008

LAURA HOSTETLER
LAURA HOSTETLER
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Abstract

‘Consulting literary sources is not as satisfactory as observation . . . If one wants to control the barbarian frontier area, one must judge the profitability of the land, and investigate the nature of its people.’

—Qian Shu

‘If one does not differentiate between their varieties, or know their customs, then one has not what it takes to appreciate their circumstances, and to govern them.’

—‘Miaoliao tushuo’

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 623 - 662
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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