Province And Politics In Late Imperial China
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Province And Politics In Late Imperial China
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Author : S. A. M. Adshead
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-14
Province And Politics In Late Imperial China written by S. A. M. Adshead and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with History categories.
First Published in 1984 Province and Politics in Late Imperial China presents analysis of one of the regional governments of China, the administration of the Szechwan governor-general from its apogee at the end of the nineteenth century to its nadir in the revolution of 1911. The Szechwan governor – general not only ruled the one province of Szechwan, but also exercised significant powers in Kweichow, the Tibetan borderlands, and parts of Yunnan and Hupei, as well as playing a major role in imperial politics. He was therefore a regional and not simply a provincial figure, while Szechwan was characteristic of the system of Chinese regions. This book seeks to show that the main threat to the dominance of the Szechwan governors – general came from their own modernizing activities; viceregal government broke down in the attempt to use traditional means to modern ends. In microcosm, therefore, Szechwan displays the pattern in both politics and ecology that was one of disruptive modernization in China. This book is an interesting read for scholars of Chinese history.
Province And Politics In Late Imperial China
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Author : Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Province And Politics In Late Imperial China written by Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Sichuan Sheng (China) categories.
Politics And Industrialization In Late Imperial China
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Author : Wellington K.K. Chan
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian
Release Date : 1975
Politics And Industrialization In Late Imperial China written by Wellington K.K. Chan and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Business & Economics categories.
Uses the early phase of Chinese industrial efforts to demonstrate that Chinese political values significantly and assuredly affected the way modern industry was promoted and developed. Both values and environment can change, and it is their interaction that determines some specific ideological content and thrust.
National Polity And Local Power
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Author : Tu-ki Min
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
National Polity And Local Power written by Tu-ki Min and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's "response to the West." To a surprising extent, this bias has prevailed even among Chinese historians, for whom the reaction to imperialism has remained a dominant concept. This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western,goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during the transition to modernity. Min sets the stage with two chapters about Chinese scciety under Ch'ing rule, one on a Korean visitor's reaction to eighteeenth-century China, the other on the social condition of the lower gentry. Each casts new light on the Chinese elite and their relation to state power. The chapters that follow-particularly the discussion of "political feudalism"-examine the conceptual resources available within the Chinese tradition for coming to terms with modernity. Min's internalist approach provides both a creative new vision of the encounter between two civilizations and a distinguished introduction to Korean Sinology.
Power And Politics In Late Imperial China
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Author : Stephen R. MacKinnon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Power And Politics In Late Imperial China written by Stephen R. MacKinnon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
Negotiated Power In Late Imperial China
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Author : Jennifer Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-28
Negotiated Power In Late Imperial China written by Jennifer Rudolph and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-28 with History categories.
The Art Of Being Governed
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Author : Michael Szonyi
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-28
The Art Of Being Governed written by Michael Szonyi and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with History categories.
An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled their obligations to provide a soldier to the army. The complex strategies they developed to manage their responsibilities suggest a new interpretation of an important period in China’s history as well as a broader theory of politics. Using previously untapped sources, including lineage genealogies and internal family documents, Szonyi examines how soldiers and their families living on China’s southeast coast minimized the costs and maximized the benefits of meeting government demands for manpower. Families that had to provide a soldier for the army set up elaborate rules to ensure their obligation was fulfilled, and to provide incentives for the soldier not to desert his post. People in the system found ways to gain advantages for themselves and their families. For example, naval officers used the military’s protection to engage in the very piracy and smuggling they were supposed to suppress. Szonyi demonstrates through firsthand accounts how subjects of the Ming state operated in a space between defiance and compliance, and how paying attention to this middle ground can help us better understand not only Ming China but also other periods and places. Combining traditional scholarship with innovative fieldwork in the villages where descendants of Ming subjects still live, The Art of Being Governed illustrates the ways that arrangements between communities and the state hundreds of years ago have consequences and relevance for how we look at diverse cultures and societies, even today.
A Cultural History Of Civil Examinations In Late Imperial China
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-03-22
A Cultural History Of Civil Examinations In Late Imperial China written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-22 with History categories.
"A very important study of one of the most important institutions in Chinese history, one without which the China we have today would certainly be a vastly different place."—Peter Bol, author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China
Negotiated Power In Late Imperial China
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Author : Jennifer M. Rudolph
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
Release Date : 2008
Negotiated Power In Late Imperial China written by Jennifer M. Rudolph and has been published by Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reformexplores the nature and functioning of reform during the nineteenth century of China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911). By analyzing the bureaucratic modes of management that developed around the creation and evolution of the Zongli Yamen or Foreign Office (1861-1901), the book demonstrates the vitality of not only the Chinese State, but also the institutional traditions of its Manchu rulers. Drawing on precedent and the flexibility of the administrative system in their efforts to manage the conduct of foreign affairs, high Qing ministers transformed opportunities for institutional dynamism into the reality of a functioning central Zongli Yamen with a foreign affairs field administration supporting it in the provinces. In the process, they altered the governmental hierarchy and changed the definition of institutional power in the multi-faceted area of foreign affairs and, more generally, for the Qing bureaucracy. As the most significant example of institutional development in China's critical period of the nineteenth century, the Zongli Yamen's experience serves as valuable background for understanding reform efforts in late imperial China and beyond.
Civil Examinations And Meritocracy In Late Imperial China
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
Civil Examinations And Meritocracy In Late Imperial China written by Benjamin A. Elman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge and skill. While millions of men dreamed of the worldly advancement an imperial education promised, many more wondered what went on inside the prestigious walled-off examination compounds. As Benjamin A. Elman reveals, what occurred was the weaving of a complex social web. Civil examinations had been instituted in China as early as the seventh century CE, but in the Ming and Qing eras they were the nexus linking the intellectual, political, and economic life of imperial China. Local elites and members of the court sought to influence how the government regulated the classical curriculum and selected civil officials. As a guarantor of educational merit, civil examinations served to tie the dynasty to the privileged gentry and literati classes--both ideologically and institutionally. China did away with its classical examination system in 1905. But this carefully balanced and constantly contested piece of social engineering, worked out over the course of centuries, was an early harbinger of the meritocratic regime of college boards and other entrance exams that undergirds higher education in much of the world today.