Music, tourism, and cultural exchange among the Naxi of Southwest China

Abstract Discussions on colonialism are pervasive in western scholarship but are hardly ever applied to the archeology of China. The present paper shows how concepts of colonialism and migration research can be successfully applied to understand Han imperial expansion into southwest China and how the Chinese material can in turn contribute to developing theories and methods of colonialism research further. Taking the Shamaoshan cemetery as a case study, the present paper combines archeological, textual, environmental, and isotope data to gain insights into strategies and processes of Han imperial expansion into southwest China. The insights gained here show that the long-accepted story-line of simple “Sinicization” and political control is far from accurate. Instead, it took over a century of cross-cultural exchange with immigrants and locals adopting each other’s customs to varying degrees. While in the beginning the Han seem to have taken a top-down approach to “civilizing” the region through their elites, the present study suggests that in the end it was the lower levels of society that intermingled most intensively and helped integrate migrants and locals successfully. Moving away from the exclusive focus on exceptional graves and large sites, the present study thus shows the great value of approaching small, poorly equipped graves with new methods, combining isotope research with a nuanced analysis of burial remains. Evaluated together with the evidence from the well-known exceptional graves, lesser-known settlement material, and historical accounts, the Shamaoshan case study has made it clear that various types of contact, colonial and otherwise, play out quite differently within different social groups and historical situations. This study thus proposes a multisource, multimethod approach that moves away from a narrative dominated by the history-writing elite segments of the colonizing force to a multivoiced account integrating local and outside perceptions at various social levels, an approach that might successfully be applied in other parts of the world.

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Using species distribution modeling to improve conservation of medicinal plants in Southwest China

Planta Medica ◽

10.1055/s-0036-1596158 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 81 (S 01) ◽

pp. S1-S381

Author(s):

B Liu ◽

F Li ◽

Z Guo ◽

L Hong ◽

W Huang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Species Distribution ◽

Southwest China ◽

Species Distribution Modeling ◽

Distribution Modeling

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A Permeable Asphalt Pavement Decision Strategy Based on the Rainfall Characteristics in Guizhou, Southwest China

CICTP 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784483053.153 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

ShiHai Zhao ◽

Zhe Huang ◽

Zhe Li ◽

YiMeng Liu ◽

JiuPeng Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

Asphalt Pavement ◽

Decision Strategy ◽

Rainfall Characteristics

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Cultural exchange between Korea and Japan using traditional arts - Focused on the Osaka Yamamoto Theater -

THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL CULTURAL CONTENTS ◽

10.32611/jgcc.2018.10.36.169 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

pp. 169-183

Author(s):

Sunghee Chung ◽

Kyounghee Kim

Keyword(s):

Cultural Exchange ◽

Traditional Arts

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Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History ◽

10.3366/jsbnh.1978.8.4.399 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 399-399

Author(s):

WILLIAM GARDENER

Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

Western China ◽

Left Bank ◽

Inner Asia ◽

Botanical Exploration ◽

Western Yunnan ◽

Westerly Direction ◽

Chinese Province ◽

The Right ◽

North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

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