...Nicola Di Cosmo New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde . Edited by James A. Millward , Ruth W. Dunnell , Mark C. Elliot , and Philippe Forêt . London : RoutledgeCurzon , 2004 . xviii , 245 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

... consumption culture, as richly reflected in the many wenshu (imprints and manuscripts) associated with Huizhou merchants (arguably the most powerful regional mercantile group in Ming-Qing China). All of this consumption could only take place at the famous scenic sites and markets of urban centers, making up...

...Willard Peterson Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642–1718) and Qing Learning . By On-cho Ng . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2001 . x, 258 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1224...

...Evelyn S. Rawski Abstract Thirty years ago, Association for Asian Studies President Ho Ping-ti summarized the state of Qing studies in his address, “The Significance of the Ch'ing Period in Chinese History” (Ho 1967). Since that time, there have been major shifts in scholarly perceptions...

...Gertraude Roth Li Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752—1835) . (The Qing Empire as Vision and Reality: Tibet Seen Through Sung Yun's Career and Writings.) By Sabine Dabringhaus . Münchener ostasiatische Studien, Band 69. Stuttgart...

... to the field of Ming-Qing literature. In this part of the monograph, Zhu Wanshu pays more attention to the literary styles of the Huishang poems than their cultural or social significance, but still we learn something important other than the literary value of their poems. We learn, for instance, that Wang...

...Yan Hon Michael Chung [email protected] Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners . By David C. Porter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2023 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780231212779 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 260...

...Beatrice Bartlett Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759–1864 . By James A. Millward . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 353 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 498 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Kwangmin Kim Abstract This article provides a Muslim perspective on the eighteenth-century Qing conquest of Xinjiang. It explores the career of Emin Khwaja, a leader of the Muslim community of Turfan and the most prominent Muslim ally in the Qing conquest. I investigate how the notion...

...Cecily McCaffrey Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty . By Ho-fung Hung . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . xvi, 253 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

...Jerry Dennerline Time, Temporality, and Imperial Transition: East Asia from Ming to Qing . Edited by Lynn A. Struve . Honolulu : Association for Asian Studies/University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . x , 300 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007...

...R. Kent Guy Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World . By Pamela Kyle Crossley . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . 1990 . xi, 305 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...William C. Jones Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing . By Philip C. C. Huang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . xvi, 272 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1060 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES party...

...Evelyn S. Rawski Abstract China's political “opening to the West” in 1979–89 directly affected historical scholarship on Ming and Qing socioeconomic history. Some PRC scholars were able to travel abroad, others met foreign specialists at international conferences held in China, and many more were...

.... Avoiding easy generalizations about imperial wanderlust, the author tells us why the practice of touring was revived at particular times. The imperial tours of the 1760s, undertaken in the aftermath of the successful western campaigns, were meant to showcase the success of ethnic rule while enhancing Qing...

...Kirk A. Denton Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China . By Theodore Huters . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . ix , 370 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 166 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Pamela Kyle Crossley Chinese Nationalism in the late Qing Dynasty: Zhang Binglin as an Anti-Manchu Propagandist . By Kauko Laitinen . London : Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series #57), 1990 . 209 pp. Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang...

...Peter C. Perdue Abstract Both the population and agricultural production of the Dongting Lake region in Hunan and Hubei provinces developed rapidly from the late Ming period through the mid-Qing period. During this period, the interests of local dike builders in clearing more land increasingly came...

... source for this assertion may be Su Shi, "Fangsheng he wei renzhu zhushou zhenfu," reproduced in Yu Zhi [1869] 1969, 7B.2a. Here Su Shi uses the term "huifang" (meeting for the purposes of liberating [the animals referring to an annual meeting at West Lake. LIBERATING ANIMALS IN MING-QING CHINA 53 piety...

... essay argued that, by the Qing dynasty, female chastity had “become a religion” ( zongjiaohua ): a prescriptive norm accepted as a matter of faith by most men and women. VOL. 46, No. 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1987 Widows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China...