In Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy, Jane Kate Leonard shows how the use of special ad hoc governing tools, such as recruitment (zhaoshang) of private organizati

Struggle for Empire provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and military commander, Zuo Zon

In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imperialist a

The articles of this volume present the majority of papers presented on the First International Workshop of the research group "Monies, Markets and Finance in C

In his book War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China, Ulrich Theobald shows how the Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911) overcame the tyranny of logistics and s