.... This chapter is designed to correct the gap in the academic literature on these issues. assaying bullion flows casting Chinese bronze coinage copper exchange rates foreign currency substitution foreign trade Guangzhou Latin America Mexico mining Opium Wars paper money Qing dynasty silver silver...

...The study of opera in Qing Beijing opens a key window onto the understanding of state-society relations and the mechanisms by which ideas and values were shared, shaped, disseminated, and contested. This book shows the associations between culture and power in the Qing dynasty. The eighteenth...

...This chapter presents a literary analysis of a subgenre of writings known as “flower registers” (huapu). It describes how allusions to pain enabled Qing theater enthusiasts to position themselves in debates about taste and distinction. The Qing-dynasty huapu in the tradition...

... dynasty Qing dynasty widow martyrs Baijie Amei Little White Sister Baijie Shengfei Holy Consort White Sister Chineseness gendered symbolism Ji gu Dian shuo ji Collected records of ancient Dian semiotics Yunnan Atwill David Dali kingdom Dali region Du Wenxiu sultanate of ethnicity of Dali...

... Metropolitan Banner Wing jingqi yi Campbell Cameron Chen Shuang children Lee James mortality rates among banner families Eight Banners social engineering Wei Ying frontier settlement migration Qing dynasty boundary-clearing Manchuria/Northeast China state building When nations engage in frontier...

... under the Eight Banners in the Qing dynasty in what is now Shuangcheng County, Heilongjiang province. Shuangcheng was settled by bannermen from urban Beijing and elsewhere in rural Manchuria in the nineteenth century. The state classified the immigrants into distinct categories, each associated...

... essays and letters should challenge our current understanding of this Qing dynasty philosopher. This book also contains translations of three important essays written by Tang-dynasty Confucian Han Yu and shows how Zhang responded to Han's earlier works. Those with an interest in ethical philosophy...

..., as the number of families holding official titles swelled, the number of ancestral halls also proliferated. This chapter focuses on the proliferation of lineage institutions from the Ming to the Qing dynasty, as well as on the emergence of supra-lineages. ancestral hall in style of family temple Huo Tao...