TITLE:
Typological Analyses of Urban Forms along the Tarim River during the Qing Dynasty
AUTHORS:
Pian Wang
KEYWORDS:
Urban Morphology, Human-Earth Interactions, Tarim River, Qing Dynasty
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.12 No.6,
June
22,
2022
ABSTRACT: This research aims at
exploring the urban forms along the Tarim river during the Qing dynasty by
using textual critical analyses and field investigation in order to restore and
study the interactions between the arid environment and Manchuria administration. The reunification of Xingjiang during the Qing
dynasty was a defining event in the dynastic history of China, yet it remains
less-discussed how water-mediated oases interacted with Manchu governance.
Restricted by the water resource, cities along the Tarim River could be divided
into three different geomorphological regions, namely, piedmont alluvial fans
(represented by Kuche), river alluvial plains (represented by Xinping), and
river tails (represented by Ruoqiang). The typological analysis of these cities
subsequently reveals that the driven factors of urbanizations in arid areas go
to government-led migration, promotion of cultivated-farming and opened-up
official routes. In light of the results obtained, this research could be
useful for reviewing the borderland reclamation during the Qing while offering
new elements of observation likely to improve regional development in arid
areas.