BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN
TZID:America/New_York
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:210@harvard-yenching.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141112T133000
DTSTAMP:20201027T004209Z
URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/relationship-between-agro-past
 oral-line-and-spread-catholic-church-chahaer-region-northern/
SUMMARY:The Relationship between the Agro-pastoral Line and the Spread of t
 he Catholic Church in the Chahaer Region\, Northern China
DESCRIPTION:\n	Prof. Zhang Xiaohong (Institute of Chinese Historical Geogra
 phy\, Fudan University\; HYI Associate)\n	Chair and Discussant: Prof. Pete
 r Bol (Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizat
 ions\, Harvard University)\n\n\n	Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for C
 hinese Studies\n\n	The Great Wall of China is located on a transition belt
  from a sub-humid region to an arid/semi-arid region\, and a boundary betw
 een farmland and nomadic areas in northern China has been found there for 
 over 2\,000 years. However\, in the middle of the 18th century\, the farml
 and area began to reach across the Great Wall and infiltrate into the noma
 dic region. Along with that process\, the agro-pastoral line started movin
 g substantially northwards and westwards\, resulting in a changed landscap
 e beyond the Great Wall. The Catholic Church\, which had been preaching in
  Inner Mongolia since 1700\, played an important role in this historical p
 rocess. Since the congregation entered Inner Mongolia\, they obtained land
  from Mongolians and lent land and farm facilities to Han Chinese in order
  to convert them and to maintain the mission. As a result of the intensive
  land management by the Catholic mission\, the arid/semi-arid landscapes\,
  formerly used as grazing lands\, were more intensely used for agriculture
 . Based on data from local archival\, Christian documents and an investiga
 tion of the Chahaer Region in Northern China\, this talk aims to study how
  the Catholics influenced the moving of the agro-pastoral line northwards 
 and the relationship between religious missions and environmental change. 
 The talk will show that as soon as the missionaries started preaching to t
 he impoverished Han people coming from within the Great Wall\, rather than
  local Mongols in the Chahaer Region\, more and more Han Catholic villages
  were constructed beyond the Great Wall. What used to be grazing land was 
 cultivated and changed to farmland. On the other hand\, to manage the Han 
 people\, the administrative system was transformed from a Meng-Banner syst
 em into a Banner-county system during that time. The latter\, as the name 
 suggests\, was based on Mongol-controlled Banners and Han-controlled count
 ies. The boundary between Banner and County serves as a hint for the agro-
 pastoral line. By reconstructing the distribution of the boundaries betwee
 n Banners and counties since the late Qing\, it can be seen that the agro-
 pastoral line in Chahaer region did shift northwards. Meanwhile\, Catholic
  villages started to concentrate in the area around the counties\, indicat
 ing that the Catholic Church played an important role in pushing the agro-
 pastoral line northwards in the Chahaer region since the late Qing Dynasty
 .
LOCATION:\, \, 
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI
 TLE=:geo:0,0
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20141102T010000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR