Author(s)

Pian Wang

Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China.

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.

Urban Morphology, Human-Earth Interactions, Tarim River, Qing Dynasty

Wang, P. (2022) Typological Analyses of Urban Forms along the Tarim River during the Qing Dynasty. Advances in Applied Sociology, 12, 263-276. doi: 10.4236/aasoci.2022.126021.