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Porcelain for the Emperor
The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain
Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of
visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) court.
Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman
Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the
first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of
specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and
distinctive artistic forms that were essential to cultural policies
of the Chinese state. Through fiscal management, technical
experimentation, and design, these imperial technocrats facilitated
rationalized manufacturing in precapitalist and preindustrial
society.
Drawing on museum collections and firsthand archaeological
evidence, as well as the voluminous Archive of the Imperial
Workshops , this book contributes new insights to scholarship
on global empires and the history of science and technology in
China. Readers will learn how the imperial state's intervention in
industry left a lingering imprint on modern China through its modes
of labor-intensive production, the division of domestic and foreign
markets, and, above all, a technocratic culture of
centralization.
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Unruly People
Unruly People shows that in mid-Qing Guangdong banditry occurred mainly in the densely populated core Canton delta where state power was strongest, challenging the conventional wisdom that banditry was most prevalent in peripheral areas. Through extensive archival research, Antony reveals that this is because the local working poor had no other options to ensure their livelihood. In 1780 the Qing government enacted the first of a series of special laws to deal specifically with Guangdong bandits who plundered on land and water. The new law was prompted by what officials described as a spiraling “bandit miasma\" in the province that had been simmering for decades. To understand the need for the special laws, Unruly People takes a closer look at the complex relationships and interconnections between bandits, sworn brotherhoods, local communities, and the Qing state in Guangdong from 1760 to 1845. Antony treats collective crime as a symptom of the dysfunction in local society and breakdown of the imperial legal system. He analyzes over 2,300 criminal cases found in palace and routine memorials in the Qing archives, as well as extant Chinese literary and foreign sources and fieldwork in rural Guangdong, to recreate vivid details of late imperial China’s underworld of crime and violence.
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Yangzi waters : transforming the water regime of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China
An in-depth study of evolving state-society-environment relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China, as well as the transformation of landscape and waterscape in central China through lenses that have been overlooked in previous scholarship.
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The oxford illustrated history of modern China
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.
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The Cultural Dimensions of Sino-Japanese Relations
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are two sections: \"China in Japan\", debating the Asiatic Mode of Production and \"kyodotai\"; and \"Japan in China\", covering the Manchurian Railway.
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