Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State

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.

• | Author: Maura Dykstra
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 16, 2022
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674270954
• | ISBN-10: 0674270959