...Herbert Butz The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735–1795 . By Ju-hsi Chou and Claudia Brown . Phoenix : Phoenix Art Museum , 1985 . 376 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 5 8 9 Kong...

.... Beijing : Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe . A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's Court: The Meanings of the Fragrant Concubine JAMES A. MILLWARD I N TOKYO'S FASHIONABLE ROPPONGI CROSSING, just down the street from the Almond Cafe where urbanites converge to meet their dates, a sign over a Chinese...

...Gregory N. Evon Abstract Late eighteenth-century East Asia witnessed similar events with the Qianlong emperor's (r. 1736–96) literary inquisition in China, King Chŏngjo's (r. 1776–1800) fight against heterodoxy in Korea, and Matsudaira Sadanobu's (1759–1829) Ban on Heterodoxy ( Igaku no kin , 1790...

... materials in the original script (pp. 260–305). Several chapters, such as chapter 5, on the significance of the Yonghegong in Beijing, and chapter 10, which compares the differences in reconstructing the lineage history of the Qianlong emperor and that of the Lcang Skya, would be particularly important...

... In 1998, the eminent Qing historian Guo Chengkang remarked to Michael G. Chang that although “[e]verybody can say a few words about the southern tours,” those trips to the south taken most frequently and notably by the Qianlong emperor, “nobody has studied them in depth yet” (pp. 3–4). Professor Chang...

... of Qianlong. The seventeen chapters, supplemented by an introduction and epilogue, have as their central subject the summer residence at Chengde. First established in the early 1700s by the Kangxi emperor as a villa “to escape the summer heat,” the site was then transformed throughout the rest of the century...

...Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens One of the ideas at the back of Kleutghen's mind is that the scenic illusions, installed in some of the emperor's most private spaces, “offer Qianlong's personal (and even secret) thoughts on the major issues of his reign, including empire, ethnicity, identity...

... planks of black ink that is Gu Gan's The Age of Red and Gold. AMY MCNAIR University of Kansas Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. By PATRICIA BERGER. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. viii, 266 pp. $42.50 (cloth). We first meet the Manchu Qianlong emperor...

... produced a substantial wartime boom in the overland trade in eastern Eurasia. The scale of the wartime economy was enormous. The Qing government had spent 137,000,000 liang s of silver in total for the military campaign against the Zunghar Mongols since the late seventeenth century. The Qianlong...

... of the Red Chamber . 8. This is historically accurate. During Qianlong's time, the Mukden complex contained a miniature of Beijing. It has been argued that this represents Qianlong's self-referencing ambition for universal empire (Crossley 1999 : 282). 7. Unlike the Hong Kong–themed My City...

... the Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors is richly detailed, and the account of Tai politics is wholly new and eye-opening. Part II, “Demographic, Economic, and Cultural Transformations,” dwells mostly on events of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its chapters explore by turns the shifts...

... lottery system deployed in Tibet by the Manchu emperor Qianlong in the late eighteenth century to choose the high incarnate lamas (Tib. tulku ) of Tibetan Buddhism. As one of the centerpieces of modern China's claim to sovereignty over Tibet, in modern times the urn was most famously used by the Chinese...

... historical context and histo- BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 8 5 1 riographical issues, four chapters examine the compilation process from the imperial initiative to the complete product. The final substantive chapter reexamines the censorship campaign. Guy makes a convincing case for Qianlong's...

..., in a metaphorical and at times literal sense, a very old Qing history produced by the Qianlong court before the failures of the nineteenth century began to cast their lugubrious shadows over the eighteenth century. This is history the way the Qing dynasty meant to have it told, with robust military values...

...Joshua Goldstein Abstract The qing court had a love-hate relationship with popular drama. From the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–95) to the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), several Qing rulers were renowned for their doting patronage of popular opera, yet the state was far from sanguine about drama's...

...Pamela Kyle Crossley Abstract During the Qianlong period (1736–95) in China, knowledge of Manchu origins, much of which had been of a folk or informal character, was given documentary institutionalization—that is, incorporation into the Qing (1636–1912) imperial cultural mosaic by the act...

... in the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods], Qingshi yanjiu ji , 3 : 74 – 92 . History Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Science and the Number One Historical Archives, ed. 1982 . Qingdai tizu boxue xingtai [The pattern of rent exploitation during Qing period]. Beijing. Hu Charles . 1946...

..., prompted by an exchange with George Macartney during his 1793–94 mission, interrogated a Gurkha informant captured earlier by Tibetan forces and learned that the people referred to by the name “Pileng” were the British, only to have this discovery lost to later generations after the deaths of the Qianlong...

..., the amount of money available for huge theatrical productions declined rather steeply after the highpoint of the Qianlong reign (1735–95), even if the last decades of the dynasty were presided over by the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), an opera fanatic if there ever was one. Another narrative...

... O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 1011 between the two) the Zunghar confederation in northern Xinjiang (otherwise known as Zungharia). Its primary focus is on China during the high Qing from Kangxi to Qianlong and on the consolidation of Manchu rule in China proper and its extension into Inner Asia...