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.


Format Inbunden Omfång 300 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-16 ISBN 9780674270954