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Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State - Harvard East Asian Monographs Maura Dykstra
Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State - Harvard East Asian Monographs
Maura Dykstra
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.
290 pages, 8 illus., 3 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 16, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674270954 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 300 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 160 × 29 mm · 510 g |
| Language | English |