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"Halfway between Peking and Western Europe": Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein's Last Major Maps of China /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	"Halfway between Peking and Western Europe": Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein's Last Major Maps of China // Nicholas Field.
作者:	Field, Nicholas,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (225 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-05A.
標題:	Religious history. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31489827
ISBN:	9798342753395

"Halfway between Peking and Western Europe": Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein's Last Major Maps of China /
Field, Nicholas,

"Halfway between Peking and Western Europe": Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein's Last Major Maps of China /Nicholas Field. - 1 electronic resource (225 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: A.

Although Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) is best known today for acquiring medieval manuscripts from Dunhuang, China, in the early twentieth century, he was also a life-long cartographer, and his map-making processes tell us much about his reliance on, and contributions to, history, philology, archaeology, geography, hydrology, anthropology, and Buddhist studies. This dissertation, "Halfway between Peking and Western Europe": Imperial Knowledge Creation and the Geography of Buddhism in Sir Aurel Stein's Last Major Maps of China, peels back the layers of Stein's maps of northwestern China to uncover the often-asymmetrical exchanges that provided geographic-and other-information for Stein. I locate Stein in the context of elite imperial academics and military officers, showing how he fashioned himself as a scientist while producing geospatial intelligence for British officials wary of Russian and Japanese interests in the region. I also demonstrate how he relied on a wide range of intermediaries in the field, including surveyors, guides, interpreters, "local experts," so-called "treasure-seekers," and the record of the pilgrim Xuanzang (602-664 CE), all of whom shaped the knowledge Stein collected and published. Their influence is nowhere felt more than in a surveyor's flaw affecting a quarter of Stein's final maps of the region, and here I use archival documents and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to explore the role this flaw played in Stein's cartographic career. These investigations converge in my analysis of Stein's engagement with the "wandering lake" Lop-nor and the nearby Lop Desert, which shows how Stein adapted the concept of "desiccation," a theory that blamed desertification on the misuse of land by local populations, into a narrative capable of synthesizing data he acquired from such varied methods as hydrology, surveying, archaeology, historical toponyms, and cranial measurements of the living and the dead. This dissertation thus argues for the necessity of Stein's cartography in understanding this major public figure, but it also unsettles the idea that his maps were objective windows onto Central Asia. His maps instead depicted what he called the "dead heart of Asia" as a frontier with a rich archaeological past, a conflicted present, and an uncertain future.

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ISBN: 9798342753395Subjects--Topical Terms:

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