Landscape practices and representations in eighteenth-century Dongchuan, Southwest China

Abstract

My doctorial thesis, entitled

‘Landscape Practices and Representations in Dongchuan, Southwest

Eighteenth-Century China’, focuses on the interdisciplinary study of

landscape, space and architecture in Southwest eighteenth-century China. Through intensive archival research and contemporary ethnographic fieldwork I demonstrate that despite the Qing Empire’s remaking of the indigenous landscape in the eighteenth century, indigenous concepts of landscape and space have survived to the present in people’s stories and myths.