Empire of Routine
Download or Read eBook Empire of Routine PDF written by Maura Dykstra and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Maura Dykstra |
| Publisher | : Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2022-09-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0674270959 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780674270954 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Empire of Routine by : Maura Dykstra
Book excerpt: 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.
