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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age - A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840 (Paperback)
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age - A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840 (Paperback)
Series: Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes
thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents
dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy,
providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered
by the texts include water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops,
brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain
detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth,
self-interest, profit, hoarding, and the market. In translating
these primary sources, Helen Dunstan invites fellow specialists in
Chinese studies, including Qing historians, to watch Qing officials
and others thinking through problems of political economy and
developing arguments to persuade colleagues or superiors. By
emphasizing their rhetorical nature and genre conventions, Dunstan
offers a reminder that it is improper to use the "information" in
such texts without attention to the author's purpose, and without
grasping the rhetorical structure of the text as a whole. As a
model for close reading, Conflicting Counsels aims to induce
greater sensitivity to the nature of Qing records. The second
purpose of Conflicting Counsels is to help dispel the notion that
economic liberalism is necessarily a Western, "modern" phenomenon.
Many of the texts translated record areas of tension and
controversy in eighteenth-century approaches to a central project
of Confucian paternalist administration, "nourishing the people"
(yangmin). Although Dunstan attempts to present both sides fairly,
some materials included present the opinion that, in certain vital
matters, it was better for the state to stand aside, and leave
society's own economic institutions, trade in particular, to handle
things. While not a majority, the texts that build some kind of
market mechanism argument should be of greatest interest to Qing
historians.
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