Project Details
Projekt
Natural Resources in the Mining Areas of Yunnan during the Qing Period - Landscape Development, Environmental Change, Cartography, and GIS-based Webmapping
Applicant
Dr. Hans-Joachim Rosner
Subject Area
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Term
from 2005 to 2011
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 13020509
In the research group ¿Monies, Markets and Finance in China an East Asia, 1600-1900: Local, Regional, National and International Dimensions¿ a massive amount of archival documents concerning mining and transport of monetary metals will be analysed. The setting up of a database containing data on mining areas, mainly in Yunnan and Sichuan (copper, zinc, tin) and Guizhou (zinc, copper) and on transport of metals to the capital and provincial mints throughout the Qing Empire was started in 2004. The quantity of data calls for cartographic and statistical analysis. The information on mining, refining, and transport of the metals yields sufficient data for electronic analyses by way of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to be used. This will help to analyse and visualise the transport process in general and to make component maps for individual provinces, transport routes, and river segments both in spatial and temporal terms. By this means our understanding of the integral transportation process and further analysis of the sources will be substantially enhanced.
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