The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time / / Lynn Struve.

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

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 234
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2004.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 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.
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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.