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PublisherHarvard University, Asia Center

ISBN-100674013999

ISBN-139780674013995

eBay Product ID (ePID)30215094

Product Key Features

Number of Pages450 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameQing Formation in World-Historical Time

SubjectAsia / China

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorLynn A. Struve

SeriesHarvard East Asian Monographs

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight25.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-001693

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThis is a thought-provoking work that combines various "macrohistorical perspectives" with ''microhistorica1 exploration," to use Perdue's words. It goes beyond descriptive and factual presentation to broach and discuss questions of broad importance such as the place of the Eurasian world in Chinese history, the early modern model, Manchu imperial ideology, and the military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will thus be useful to those interested in seeing the events of the Qing transformation in a global context, both literally and conceptually., This is a thought-provoking work that combines various "macrohistoricalperspectives" with ''microhistorica1 exploration," to use Perdue's words. It goes beyond descriptive and factual presentation to broach and discuss questions of broad importance such as the place of the Eurasian world in Chinese history, the early modern model, Manchu imperial ideology, and the military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will thus be useful to those interested in seeing the events of the Qing transformation in a global context, both literally and conceptually.

Series Volume Number234

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal951/.032

SynopsisFor many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as late imperial China, a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the Qing and into the twentieth century. This paradigm asserts the autonomous character of social change in China and has allowed historians to create a China-centred history. Recently, however, many scholars have begun emphasising the singular qualities of the Qing. emphasise the Manchu ethos of the Qing tend to see it as part of an early modernity and stress parallel and sometimes mutually reinforcing patterns of political consolidation and cultural integration across Eurasia. Other contributors who examine the Qing formation from the perspective of those who lived through the dynastic transition see the advent of Qing rule as prompting attempts by the Chinese subjects of the new empire to make sense of what they perceived as a historical disjuncture and to rework these understandings into an accommodation to foreign rule. In contrast to the late imperial paradigm, the new ways of configuring the Qing in historical time in both groups of essays assert the singular qualities of the Qing formation., For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as "late imperial China," a temporal framework that asserts the autonomous character of social change in China and has allowed historians to create a "China-centered history." In contrast to the late imperial paradigm, the new ways of configuring the Qing in historical time assert the singular qualities of the Qing formation.

LC Classification NumberDS754.25.Q25 2004