Knowing Manchuria : environments, the senses, and natural knowledge on an Asian borderland / Ruth Rogaski.
"Knowing Manchuria places the creation of knowledge about nature at the center of our understanding of one of the world's most contested borderlands. At the intersection of China, Russia, Korea, and Mongolia, Manchuria is known as a site of war and environmental extremes, where projects of...
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[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The flying voles of Gannan and the challenge of knowing Manchuria's natures
- Landscapes of exile: nostalgia and natural history on the journey to Ningguta
- Where the dragon arose: discovering the dragon through number and blood
- Si(gh)ting the White Mountain: locating Mount Paektu/Changbai in a sacred landscape
- Flowers along the Amur: making sense of plant diversity on the Amazon of Asia
- Fossils of empire: the Jehol Biota and the age of coal
- Plagueland: pursuing Yersinia pestis on the Manchurian-Mongolian grassland
- Scientific redemption: the flying voles of Gannan revisited
- Reclaimed: technology and embodied knowledge on the Sanjiang Plain
- Conclusion: a view from the mountain.