Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs - Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China (Hardcover)

Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. It highlights the Qing regime's ability to accommodate an astonishing variety of local governing environments in the management of short-term contingent crises and long-term evolutionary problems caused by changes in the social-economic fabric of Greater China during the Qing period. It argues that the Qing state should be viewed as a system of indirect rule because of its accommodative strategies of governance and its reliance on sub- and extra-bureaucratic power groups at the local level. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs makes an important contribution to our understanding of the practical operation of Qing government, and its readability, thematic coherence, and inclusion of professionally-drawn maps and enhanced Chinese woodblock illustrations make this work attractive and accessible to students of late imperial China as well as Qing specialists.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University East Asia Program
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
Editors:	Robert J. Antony • Jane Kate Leonard
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-885445-43-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	1-885445-43-1
Barcode:	9781885445438

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