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In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship

In the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship em

In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry statu

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth