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Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, New Ed)
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Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, New Ed)
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During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers
consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever
known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the
most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation
of the social history of China during this period--one of the most
dynamic periods in China's early modern era. "A lucid, original,
and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic
history of China's last great period of glory. This will be an
important book for students of Chinese history."-Jonathan Spence,
Yale University "Engaging, complex, and elegantly written. . . .
Absorbing and valuable: a thorough, unique, and richly detailed
account of the social forms and cultural and religious life of the
people."-Choice "[An] interesting and well-informed survey of China
between about 1680 and 1820."-W.J.F. Jenner, Asian Affairs "I would
be a very odd scholar or general reader who could not derive profit
from reading this elegant and painstaking survey of the social,
cultural, and economic life of the Qing empire in its apparent
prime. . . . A superb survey which readers may absorb and
cherish."-Alexander Woodside, Pacific Affairs "A highly readable
synthesis of recent secondary literature on the subject."-William
S. Atwell, Journal of Asian Studies "Their coverage is
comprehensive and their writing is clear and lucid. reading this
book obtains one a very broad, yet penetrative, view of Chinese
society at the time."-Alan P.L. Liu, Asian Thought & Society
"The ground covered by this book is vast. . . . Its very breadth
conveys with great clarity the extent of current knowledge of
premodern China: it also serves as an excellent introduction to the
social history of the Qing dynasty."-Hugh D.R. Baker, China
Quarterly "This is a most challenging work and ambitious work. . .
. Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century give both the general
reader and also the historian who does not study China a tool for
grounding himself or herself in the basic patterns and trends that
could be found in eighteenth century China as well as in the
problems the specialists are now exploring. The book is also of
great value to students of traditional and modern China, for it
serves to synthesize much of the new literature on China in the
High Qing. Thus it serves the 'China hand' as a state of the field
essay that shows just where we are even as it suggests directions
for future research."-Murray A. Rubinstein, American Asian Review
"This excellent book provides an intelligent summary our rapidly
changing understanding of Chinese society in a crucial century of
political stability and economic and demographic expansion. Susan
Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski are distinguished contributors to the
field, energetically engaged in its multinational communication
networks."-John E. Wills, Jr., American Historical Review
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