Saving the World Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China

Name: Saving the World Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China
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ISBN: 9780804748186

ISBN-10: 0804748187

ISBN-13: 9780804748186

Edition: 2001

Authors: William T. Rowe

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Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general, governor, or in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a “model official.” In this magisterial study, the author draws on Chen’s life and career to answer a range of questions: What did mid-Qing bureaucrats think they were doing? How did they conceive the universe and their society, what did they see as their potential to “save the world,” and what would the world, properly saved, be like? The answers to these questions are important not…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.96" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English

William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History at Johns Hopkins University.