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03712aam a2200505 i 4500 001 42D6548C4EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 220323t20222022maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022003064 020 $a 0674270959 020 $a 9780674270954 035 $a (OCoLC)1295805650 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a DS754.25 $b .D95 2022 082 00 $a 951/.032 $2 23/eng/20220420 100 1 $a Dykstra, Maura D., $e author. 245 10 $a Uncertainty in the empire of routine : $b the administrative revolution of the eighteenth-century Qing state / $c Maura D. Dykstra. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Asia Center, $c 2022. 300 $a xxxv, 262 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Harvard East Asian monographs ; $v 452 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: Qing History / Qing Archive -- Introduction -- Part I Building the Empire of Routine -- Early Qing Legal Institutions -- Beyond Fact -- Imperial Routines in the Local Archive -- Part II After the Unexpected Administrative Revolution -- Ruling the Empire of Routine -- When the Problem Is the Solution 520 $a "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 there. Over the course of a hundred years, the central court continued to demand more information from the provinces about local administrative activities. By the middle of the eighteenth century, unprecedented amounts of data about local offices throughout the empire existed. The result of this information coup was a growing discourse of crisis and decline. Gathering data to ensure that officials were doing their jobs properly, it turned out, repeatedly exposed new issues requiring new forms of scrutiny. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial routines and standards binding together local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very epistemological foundations of the state. A vicious cycle arose whereby reporting protocols implemented to solve problems uncovered more problems, necessitating the collection of more information. At the very moment that the Qing knew more about itself than ever before, the central court became certain that it had entered an age of decline"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Local government $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Local government $z China $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Government information $z China $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Government information $z China $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a China $x History $y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. 651 0 $a China $x Politics and government $y 1644-1912. 651 6 $a Chine $x Histoire $y 1644-1912 (Dynastie mandchoue) 651 6 $a Chine $x Politique et gouvernement $y 1644-1912. 650 7 $a Government information. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00945364 650 7 $a Local government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01001300 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Qing Dynasty (China) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01696773 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 648 7 $a 1600-1912 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Harvard East Asian monographs ; $v 52. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023527.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42D6548C4EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search