Focusing on material exchanges, knowledge circulations, border-crossings, and contestations over territoriality through the lens of Ming emperors, highland regime lords, Tibetan Buddhist monks, Ming military deserters, and Mongol nomads, this dissertation highlights the formation of a borderland space as the outcome of constant compromise and negotiation. By investigating how and why different social groups understood the highland differently, this dissertation scrutinizes the operating mechanism of a borderland society and its role in macroregional geopolitics. Competing visions over the highland, as both historical phenomena and research perspective, highlight the dynamic nature of the region and its function as a bridge for cross-cultural encounters and transregional geopolitical interactions. The Crossword Solver found 30 answers to 'asian mountains', 9 letters crossword clue. Maotai or Moutai is a style of baijiu, a distilled Chinese liquor, made in the town of Maotai in Chinas Guizhou province. Straddling the Chinese heartland, Tibetan plateau, and the Mongol steppe, the highland region was a convergence zone that facilitated a constant flow of people, goods, and knowledge.
This dissertation uses the analytical tool of “competing visions” to examine the historical development of China’s Inner Asian highland from 1368 to 1600.
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