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Tiger Plagues and Local Governance in Huanglong Mountain Area of Shaanxi During the Late Ming and Mid-Qing Dynasty
Received date: 2023-08-22
Online published: 2025-07-16
Ming-Qing documents primarily frame human-tiger interactions through incidents of ‘tiger attacking/biting people’ and responses like ‘expelling/capturing tigers’, creating an impression of pervasive tiger threats. Concurrently, tiger symbolism shifted from ‘sacred’ to ‘dangerous’. In Huanglong Mountain (黄龙山) during late Ming to mid-Qing periods, environmental and social histories surrounding human-tiger conflicts reveal the competition for living space, societal instability affecting human-tiger relations, and local officials’ governance strategies for tiger plagues. The scholar-official class’s utilitarian governance concepts, values, and political ethics profoundly influenced these strategies. Fundamentally, however, preserving political order and social stability constituted the core objective driving both tiger management and local governance.
Wang Han , Wang Yun . Tiger Plagues and Local Governance in Huanglong Mountain Area of Shaanxi During the Late Ming and Mid-Qing Dynasty[J]. Historical Geography Research, 2025 , 45(2) : 16 -25 . DOI: 10.20166/j.issn.2096-6822.L20230287
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