The qing formation in world-historical time / / edited by Lynn A. Struve.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 234
• TeilnehmendeR: Struve, Lynn A., 1944-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2004]; 2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 234.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "The chapters in this volume arose from "The Qing Formation in World and Chinese Time" conference, which was held on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University in June 1999."--Acknowledgements.

This paradigm asserts the autonomous character of social change in China and has allowed historians to create a 'China-centered history'.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Lynn A. Struve -- Part I: Sitings in Eurasian time -- The Qing empire in Eurasian time and space: lessons from the Galdan campaigns / Peter C. Perdue -- The Qing formation, the Mongol legacy, and the "end of history" in early modern Central Eurasia / James A. Millward -- Did guns matter? firearms and the Qing formation / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Contingent connections: Fujian, the empire, and the early modern world / John E. Wills, Jr. -- Part II: Was the early Qing "early modern?" -- The Qing formation and the early modern period / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Neither late imperial nor early modern: efflorescences and the Qing formation in world history / Jack A. Goldstone -- The diachronics of early Qing visual and material culture / Jonathan Hay -- Chimerical early modernity: the case of "conquest generation" memoirs / Lynn A. Struve.