Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine - The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State - Maura Dykstra - Hardback Bog - Harvard
Brand: Harvard University Press
Description
Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.
