Helen Dunstan Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840 9780472038077

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Автор: Helen Dunstan
Название: Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840
ISBN: 9780472038077
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Азии

Социальная история и история культуры

Этнические исследования

Международная экономика

Экономика развития и развивающиеся экономики

ISBN-10: 0472038079
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 368
Вес: 0.53 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2021
Серия: Michigan monographs in chinese studies
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 21
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Asian history
Подзаголовок: A documentary study of political economy in qing china, 1644-1840
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy, providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered by the texts include water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops, brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth, self-interest, profit, hoarding, and the market.

In translating these primary sources, Helen Dunstan invites fellow specialists in Chinese studies, including Qing historians, to watch Qing officials and others thinking through problems of political economy and developing arguments to persuade colleagues or superiors. By emphasizing their rhetorical nature and genre conventions, Dunstan offers a reminder that it is improper to use the information in such texts without attention to the author's purpose, and without grasping the rhetorical structure of the text as a whole. As a model for close reading, Conflicting Counsels aims to induce greater sensitivity to the nature of Qing records.

The second purpose of Conflicting Counsels is to help dispel the notion that economic liberalism is necessarily a Western, modern phenomenon. Many of the texts translated record areas of tension and controversy in eighteenth-century approaches to a central project of Confucian paternalist administration, nourishing the people (yangmin). Although Dunstan attempts to present both sides fairly, some materials included present the opinion that, in certain vital matters, it was better for the state to stand aside, and leave society's own economic institutions, trade in particular, to handle things. While not a majority, the texts that build some kind of market mechanism argument should be of greatest interest to Qing historians.

Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840, Helen Dunstan