Slaves of the emperor service, privilege, and status in the Qing Eight Banners
"Slaves of the Emperor rethinks how state-making and empire-building were conducted in early modern Eurasia through a revisionist and comparative history of the Eight Banner military system of Qing China (1644-1912). The Qing dynasty, like many ruling families of its time, was faced with a chal...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2024]
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| Sumario: | "Slaves of the Emperor rethinks how state-making and empire-building were conducted in early modern Eurasia through a revisionist and comparative history of the Eight Banner military system of Qing China (1644-1912). The Qing dynasty, like many ruling families of its time, was faced with a challenge as its power grew: how to create an effective bureaucracy capable of increasing the administrative capacity of the state and governing an ever-expanding territory, while retaining the loyalty of its most important supporters. Its answer, like those of the shoguns of Tokugawa Japan, the tsars of imperial Russia, and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, was to develop a "service elite" that institutionalized an exchange of hereditary service for hereditary privilege. The people of the Eight Banners, in their role as the Qing service elite, provided the dynasty with a loyal and diverse group of soldiers, administrators, and technocrats who helped turn a small and simple tribal polity into a large, multicultural, and complex empire. In uncovering the mechanisms through which the Qing rulers developed a system of meritocratic recruitment and specialized bureaucratic function out of a group of people officially conceptualized as slaves of the emperor, this book provides a framework for studying the structure and function of elites that existed elsewhere in Eurasia at the same time as the Qing banners"-- Editor |
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| Descripción Física: | IX, 340 páginas ; 23 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 309-324) e índice |
| ISBN: | 9780231212779 9780231212762 |
