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Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine investigates the administrative revolution of China’s eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth cen

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis.

During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors -- those i

The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of ti

This book is a study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of