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Message from the Editor Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Steven B. Miles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Message from the Editor Steven B. Miles, Editor-in-chief The June 2023 issue of Late Imperial China marked the departure of Qitao Guo as associate editor. We thank him for his valuable service and wish him well in a retirement that will be devoted to the continuing study of Huizhou. With the December 2023 issue, Emily Mokros joins the
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Shangyu Tiaoli and the Study of Qing Central Government Legislative Agendas Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Lawrence Zhang, Chong Li
Abstract: This article highlights a source from the Qing dynasty, published under various titles such as Shangyu tiaoli, Buyuan tiaozou, Gebuyuan tiaolice, and others, and describes its significance and usefulness for the study of Qing history. These publications are official compilations of regulations and legislations from the Qing government that were printed by various provincial governments since
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List of Contributors Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jaymin Kim
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Contributors Jaymin Kim Jaymin Kim is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. Joohee Suh is an Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University. Tony D. Qian is a Visiting Scholar at Seoul National University Asia Center. Copyright © 2023 Society for Qing Studies and Johns Hopkins University
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Judicial Storytelling: Marriage Controversies in a Late Ming Case Collection Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Tony D. Qian
Abstract: This article examines the recurrent narratives, tropes, and motifs that were utilized in the disposition of marriage controversies in the late Ming case collection, New Accounts of Case Decisions (Zheyu xinyu), attributed to the prefectural judge Li Qing (16021683). The collection consists of 210 judgments divided into ten categories and begins conspicuously with marriage cases. This article
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Message from the Editor Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Steven B. Miles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Message from the Editor Steven B. Miles, Editor-in-chief With the December 2022 issue of Late Imperial China, Eric Schluessel and Yulian Wu join the editorial board as associate editors. We are delighted to have them on our team. [End Page vi] Copyright © 2022 Society for Qing Studies and Johns Hopkins University Press ...
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War and Technology: Ding Gongchen and His Cannon Practice Manuals Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Sau-yi Fong
Abstract: This article examines the career trajectory of Ding Gongchen (1800–1875), a Muslim maritime merchant and amateur military technologist from Fujian, to shed light on the changing social landscape of military technological learning in China from the first decades of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the Self-Strengthening Movement in the 1860s. The gradual loosening of state control
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Mapping Pasturelands: The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Qing Mongolia Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Anne-Sophie Pratte
Abstract: This paper examines the production of local maps of Qing Khalkha Mongolia in the 19th century. In 1864, the Zongli Yamen initiated a mapping policy that aimed at designing a coherent system of geographical correspondences to record places, distances, and boundaries on the Mongol steppe. This system departed from the longitude and latitude system and enabled the correspondences of boundary
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List of Contributors Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Contributors Maura Dykstra is an Assistant Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. Daniel Knorr is an Assistant Professor of Modern Asian History at University of Cambridge. Gilbert Z. Chen is an Assistant Professor of History at Towson University. Fan Qin is an Associate Professor in the College of History
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Erratum Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum The article, "The Court Audience and the Manchu Masculine Ideal: The Yongzheng Emperor's Secret Personnel Files," by Lex Jing Lu, published in the December 2021 issue, contains the following errors. On page 60, a new footnote at the end of the first paragraph in the "Identity Prototypes" section should read: "This section follows
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Message from the Editor Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Steven B. Miles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Message from the Editor Steven B. Miles, Editor-in-chief After the June 2022 issue of Late Imperial China, Yi-Li Wu will step down from her role as an associate editor. Among the first group of associate editors appointed in 2014, Yi-Li has been a trusted colleague to her fellow editors and a devoted mentor to our authors. I will miss
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Growing up before the Rebellion: Merchant Organization and Local Administration in Chongqing Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Maura Dykstra
Drawing on evidence from the uniquely rich archives of Ba County, this article proposes a revision of the widely shared assumption that the disastrous effects of the Taiping Rebellion led first to the flourishing and then to the fall of merchant involvement in local municipal initiatives throughout the Qing Empire. The article illustrates how the history of merchant and craftsmen participation in administrative
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Monastic Mobility, Social Embeddedness, and Kinship Networks: Buddhist Clerical Sexuality in Late-Qing Sichuan Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Gilbert Z. Chen
In the late imperial era, lower-level Buddhist monks were frequently accused of transgressing monastic precepts and engaging in sexual relations. This article, based on evidence culled from the Qing-era county archives, investigates locally situated knowledge regarding clerical sexuality. Three factors contributed to the occurrence of clerical sexual involvements at the local level: a high degree of
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List of Contributors Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Contributors Maura Dykstra is an Assistant Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. Daniel Knorr is an Assistant Professor of Modern Asian History at University of Cambridge. Gilbert Z. Chen is an Assistant Professor of History at Towson University. Fan Qin is an Associate Professor in the College of History
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Erratum Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Erratum The article, "The Court Audience and the Manchu Masculine Ideal: The Yongzheng Emperor's Secret Personnel Files," by Lex Jing Lu, published in the December 2021 issue, contains the following errors. On page 60, a new footnote at the end of the first paragraph in the "Identity Prototypes" section should read: "This section follows
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Message from the Editor Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Steven B. Miles
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Message from the Editor Steven B. Miles, Editor-in-chief After the June 2022 issue of Late Imperial China, Yi-Li Wu will step down from her role as an associate editor. Among the first group of associate editors appointed in 2014, Yi-Li has been a trusted colleague to her fellow editors and a devoted mentor to our authors. I will miss
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Growing up before the Rebellion: Merchant Organization and Local Administration in Chongqing Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Maura Dykstra
Drawing on evidence from the uniquely rich archives of Ba County, this article proposes a revision of the widely shared assumption that the disastrous effects of the Taiping Rebellion led first to the flourishing and then to the fall of merchant involvement in local municipal initiatives throughout the Qing Empire. The article illustrates how the history of merchant and craftsmen participation in administrative
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Monastic Mobility, Social Embeddedness, and Kinship Networks: Buddhist Clerical Sexuality in Late-Qing Sichuan Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Gilbert Z. Chen
In the late imperial era, lower-level Buddhist monks were frequently accused of transgressing monastic precepts and engaging in sexual relations. This article, based on evidence culled from the Qing-era county archives, investigates locally situated knowledge regarding clerical sexuality. Three factors contributed to the occurrence of clerical sexual involvements at the local level: a high degree of
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Journeys Through the Netherworld in Late-Ming Hagiographic Narratives Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Noga Ganany
Abstract: This article examines the trope of journeys through the netherworld in late Ming hagiographic narratives, or "origin narratives," that celebrate the life stories of gods, immortals, and historic figures. Origin narratives share a common narrative structure that standardizes the life stories of revered figures as a cyclical journey, marked by the protagonist's descent to the human world and
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Charting a Strange Garden: Mapping the Kuaiyuan Zhiyi Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Rania Huntington
Abstract: No matter how bizarre or fantastic the events they describe, zhiguai (tales of the strange) are almost always set in mundane locations that can be located on a map, proving a wealth of geographic information for a body of narrative between the personal and the colective. Using GIS (Geographic Information Systems), this article explores the intersection of geography with conceptual categories
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The Inscription of Remnant Things: Zhang Dai's "Twenty-Eight Friends" Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-06-26 Thomas Kelly
Abstract: This essay investigatesliterary approaches to objectsin the wake of dynastic transitionby examining Zhang Dai’s (1597–1684) inscriptions on his family’spossessions. Zhang exploits the formal conventions of inscription (ming) praise” and “admonition” reconcile the imperatives of remembrance with pointed moral judgments, working to redeem Ming practices of connoisseurship, while assessing their
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Reimagining Qing Space: Yongzheng's Eurasian Atlas (1727–29) Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-06-26 Mario Cams
Abstract: This study discusses the production context, supporting networks, and circulation of a large multi-sheet map produced at the Yongzheng court in 1727–8. The 98-sheet map added the entire Russian empire to its Kangxi-era predecessor, which has featured prominently in the literature. By zooming in on this hitherto unexplored Yongzheng edition, new light is shed on the entire series of eighteenth-century
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Musulman Knowledge, Local History, and the Making of the Qing Nation-State Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kevin Kind
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The Court Audience and the Manchu Masculine Ideal: The Yongzheng Emperor's Secret Personnel Files Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Lex Jing Lu
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Charting a Strange Garden: Mapping the Kuaiyuan Zhiyi Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Rania Huntington
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Journeys Through the Netherworld in Late-Ming Hagiographic Narratives Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Noga Ganany
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The Inscription of Remnant Things: Zhang Dai’s “Twenty-Eight Friends” Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Thomas Kelly
Abstract:This essay investigatesliterary approaches to objectsin the wake of dynastic transitionby examining Zhang Dai’s (1597–1684) inscriptions on his family’spossessions. Zhang exploits the formal conventions of inscription (ming) praise” and “admonition” reconcile the imperatives of remembrance with pointed moral judgments, working to redeem Ming practices of connoisseurship, while assessing their
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Reimagining Qing Space: Yongzheng’s Eurasian Atlas (1727–29) Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Mario Cams
Abstract:This study discusses the production context, supporting networks, and circulation of a large multi-sheet map produced at the Yongzheng court in 1727–8. The 98-sheet map added the entire Russian empire to its Kangxi-era predecessor, which has featured prominently in the literature. By zooming in on this hitherto unexplored Yongzheng edition, new light is shed on the entire series of eighteenth-century
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Reconciling the Three Teachings: Tu Long's (1543–1605) Self-Cultivation and Playwriting Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Mengxiao Wang
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Mushroom Cloud Over the Northern Capital: Writing the Tianqi Explosion in the Seventeenth Century Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Naixi Feng
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More Haste, Less Speed: Sources of Friction in the Ming Postal System* Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Chelsea Zi Wang
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The Negotiated Geography of the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) and the Role of the Jesuits Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Helena Jaskov
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Bannermen As Translators: Manchu Language Education in the Hanjun Banners Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 David Porter
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Stitching Words to Suture Wounds: A Manuscript Diary from the Taiping-Qing Civil War (1851–64) Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Huan Jin
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Re-Collecting the Glorious Age: Yang Fuji and the Disciplining of Zhaodai Congshu, 1772–1844 Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 He Bian
Generations of sinologists worldwide have relied on congshu — texts published in print as collections — for their training and research, yet the term has resisted straightforward translation.1 Arthur W. Hummel Sr. (1884–1975) in 1931 endorsed the Latinate term collectanea, defining it as “a collection of reprints on several subjects by several authors.” Hummel also noted the continued popularity of
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Dangers on the Road: Travelers, Laoguazei, and the State in Eighteenth-Century North China Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Huiying Chen
“I fear they harmed my father on the road!” On October 20, 1742, An Rong pleaded with the prefect of Shanzhou prefecture, Henan, for an official inquiry into an imprisoned laoguazei. Two years earlier, while at home to the north in Jiangzhou prefecture, Shanxi, An Rong had received a letter from the clerk working in his father’s flower shop far to the northeast in Xinle county, Zhili, asking for his
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Imagining History/Writing Late Imperial China Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Carla Nappi
We can imagine them sitting in a room around a table, enjoying a lazy dinner. The translators, the movers of words, the anatomists of language, the architects of broken and breakable structures. The Siamese interpreter, Women La and his colleagues. Wang Zilong, the student of Mongolian language, and Qoninci, the author of his textbook. (They’ve come as a couple, though they lived more than two centuries
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Sharing the Dream with New Audiences via New Media Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Ann Waltner
Much of my career has been ordinary (with a fairly conventional menu of teaching, research, and administration) but in the last decade or so, it has become rather less ordinary. I constructed a website in conjunction with an opera based on Dream of the Red Chamber, and I began writing scripts and performing them with an early music group called Sacabuche. While I do not regard either project as “public
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Toward an Environmental Microhistory: Lessons from the Muwa Gisun Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jonathan Schlesinger
Abstract:The editors intend for this occasional feature to spotlight a scholar's thoughtful engagement with a single primary source. The title is deliberately playful: We hope that these short pieces will both inspire and delight.
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The Distant Sound of Book Boats: The Itinerant Book Trade in Jiangnan from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Fan Wang
The morning arrival of book boats was a welcome sight to Chen Zhan, a distinguished scholar and book collector. As he notes in the comment accompanying his poem, there were no book stores in Xiashi, the town in central Haining county northeast of Hangzhou where he was born and lived for many years: these itinerant peddlers were his only commercial source for books. His remark is of interest to book
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Conference Note: Anxieties of Abundance: Sources and Methods for Qing Studies in the Digital Age Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Emily Mokros
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Seeing through Pictures and Poetry: A History of Lenses (1681) Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2017-01-01 S.E. Kile, Kristina Kleutghen
With the words, “appended below are the specifications for all of these types of lenses” (82), the early Qing author Li Yu (1611–80) rather awkwardly interrupts the second chapter of his vernacular short story (huaben) “A Tower for the Summer Heat” (Xiayi lou) with a long descriptive list of optical devices.1 After developing the story for a full chapter, Li Yu reveals to the reader and the female
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Changes over Time in Qing History: The Importance of Context Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Paul Cohen
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Reflections on Five Decades of Studying Late Imperial Chinese Literature Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Robert E. Hegel
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Images of the Qing Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2016-01-01 R. Kent Guy
When I was first teaching the Qing field I gave a lecture that, as I thought, would introduce the Qing Dynasty to undergraduate students at the University of Washington. Unconsciously, I personified the Qing, and found myself saying “The Qing did this,” or “The Qing did that.” One student quietly raised her hand, and asked: “What is a qing?” The question stopped me short, for I didn’t have an answer
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Administrative Law and the Making of the First Da Qing Huidian Late Imperial China Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Macabe Keliher
This article examines the formation of the rules and regulations for the Qing administration, beginning with the establishment of the six boards in 1631 and ending with the publication of the first Da Qing huidian, or administrative code, in 1690. It charts the administrative problems that arose during the early Qing, and how state-makers turned to the Ming Huidian for answers but consistently found