Between 1751 and 1784, the Qianlong emperor embarked upon six
southern tours, traveling from Beijing to Jiangnan and back. These
tours were exercises in political theater that took the Manchu
emperor through one of the Qing empire's most prosperous regions.
This study elucidates the tensions and the constant negotiations
characterizing the relationship between the imperial center and
Jiangnan, which straddled the two key provinces of Jiangsu and
Zhejiang. Politically, economically, and culturally, Jiangnan was
the undisputed center of the Han Chinese world; it also remained a
bastion of Ming loyalism and anti-Manchu sentiment. How did the
Qing court constitute its authority and legitimate its domination
over this pivotal region? What were the precise terms and
historical dynamics of Qing rule over China proper during the long
eighteenth century?
In the course of addressing such questions, this study also
explores the political culture within and through which High Qing
rule was constituted and contested by a range of actors, all of
whom operated within socially and historically structured contexts.
The author argues that the southern tours occupied a central place
in the historical formation of Qing rule during a period of
momentous change affecting all strata of the eighteenth-century
polity.
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