Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine : : The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State / / Maura Dykstra.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian monographs, ; 452
• VerfasserIn: Dykstra, Maura D.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian monographs : ; 452.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxv, 262 pages) :; illustrations.

"This book uncovers the administrative revolution of the eighteenth-century Qing state. It begins in the mid-seventeenth century with what seemed, at the time, like straightforward policies to clean up the bureaucracy: a regulation about deadlines here, a requirement about reporting standards t...