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Strategic Space: Exclusion and Inclusion in Wildland Policies in Late Imperial China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Nicholas K. Menzies
Nicholas K. Menzies
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Ford Foundation, Beijing
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Abstract

Wildlands have attracted the attention of national governments, not only for the natural resources they contain, but also as land available for settlement or as the home of marginalized populations, a potential source of disorder. Some countries have attempted to maintain control over wildlands and their resources by excluding people from them. The historical record of government policies towards wildlands in Late Imperial China Shows that wildlands had more symbolic and strategic value to the authorities than economic value. In this case, policies adopted an alternative strategy of filling the ‘strategic space’ represented by wildlands, bringing them more closely into the cultural and economic orbit of the centre by settlement–the policy of inclusion.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 719 - 733
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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