Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine

Maura Dykstra

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Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth century with what seemed, at the time, to

Revolutionary Waves

Tie Xiao

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During China’s transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum have used the crowd trope to ruminate on question

Public Memory in Early China

K. E. Brashier

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In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordin

Visionary Journeys

Xiaofei Tian

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This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely,

Worldly Stage

Sophie Volpp

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In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites. As the newly rich and t

Dry Spells

Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke

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Chinese officials put considerable effort into managing the fiscal and legal affairs of their jurisdictions, but they also devoted significant time and energy to performing religious rituals on beh

Embassies and Illusions

John E. Wills Jr.

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