Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. It highlights the Qing regime's ability to accommodate an astonishing variety of local governing environments in the management of short-term contingent crises and long-term evolutionary problems caused by changes in the social-economic fabric of Greater China during the Qing period. It argues that the Qing state should be viewed as a system of indirect rule because of its accommodative strategies of governance and its reliance on sub- and extra-bureaucratic power groups at the local level. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs makes an important contribution to our understanding of the practical operation of Qing government, and its readability, thematic coherence, and inclusion of professionally-drawn maps and enhanced Chinese woodblock illustrations make this work attractive and accessible to students of late imperial China as well as Qing specialists.
| ISBN: | 9781885445148 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2010 |
| Author: | 16001914 Qing crisis management and the bonds of civil community, Robert J Antony, Jane Kate Leonard |
| Publisher: | Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 333 pages |
| Series: | Cornell East Asia Series |
| Genres: |
General and world history |
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. It highlights the Qing regime's ability to accommodate an astonishing variety of local governing environments in the management of short-term contingent crises and long-term evolutionary problems caused by changes in the social-economic fabric of Greater China during the Qing period. It argues that the Qing state should be viewed as a system of indirect rule because of its accommodative strategies of governance and its reliance on sub- and extra-bureaucratic power groups at the local level. Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs makes an important contribution to our understanding of the practical operation of Qing government, and its readability, thematic coherence, and inclusion of professionally-drawn maps and enhanced Chinese woodblock illustrations make this work attractive and accessible to students of late imperial China as well as Qing specialists.
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs features in the following genres: General and world history
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is available in Paperback
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs was written by 16001914 Qing crisis management and the bonds of civil community, Robert J Antony, Jane Kate Leonard and published by Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs has 333 pages
Yes it is part of Cornell East Asia Series series
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