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The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China presents a major new approach in research on the formation of the Qing empire (1636–1912) in early modern China. Focusing on the symbolic practices that structured domination and legitimized authority, the book challenges traditional understandings of state-formation, and argues that in addition to war making and institution building, the disciplining of diverse political actors, and the construction of political order through symbolic acts were essential undertakings in the making of the Qing state. Beginning in 1631 with the establishment of the key disciplinary organization, the Board of Rites, and culminating with the publication of the first administrative code in 1690, Keliher shows that the Qing political environment was premised on sets of intertwined relationships constantly performed through acts such as the New Year’s Day ceremony, greeting rites, and sumptuary regulations, or what was referred to as li in Chinese. Drawing on Chinese- and Manchu-language archival sources, this book is the first to demonstrate how Qing state-makers drew on existing practices and made up new ones to reimagine political culture and construct a system of domination that lay the basis for empire.  

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Preface PART ONE. CONTEXT 1. Introduction: Li and the Qing State 2. The Manchu Ascendancy and Struggles for Power PART TWO. FORMATION, 1631–1651 3. The New Year’s Day Ceremony 4. The Institution of the Emperor 5. The Administrative Order and Its Enactment PART THREE. INSTITUTIONALIZATION, 1651–1690 6. Imperial Relatives in Service of the State 7. Completing the System: The Case of Imperial Dress 8. Codification: The Da Qing Huidian Conclusion: Li, Qing China, and Early Modern Eurasia Appendix One: Sons and Grandsons of Nurhaci and Šurhaci Mentioned in the Text Appendix Two: Banner Lords under Nurhaci and Hong Taiji Appendix Three: A Note on Sources Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Macabe Keliher is Assistant Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.

Review :
"[Keliher] has produced an extremely valuable and well-balanced work that will stand the test of time." "The book exists in an intersecting zone of institutional, political, and legal histories of Imperial China while dealing with various primary sources in Manchu and classical Chinese. As he concludes his book while locating the specific Qing institutional history in world history, it will also provide a useful backdrop not only for historians of Imperial China but also for researchers conducting comparative studies of the political system of East Asia." “For historians of the Qing dynasty . . . this is one of those wonderful books that says something that the moment you read it you know is completely obvious but somehow no one has seen before.” "By taking seriously his protagonists’ preoccupation with li/doro/ritual as recorded in the historical sources, Macabe Keliher has produced an enriching and important work of scholarship that may be appreciated on a number of levels. . . . Specialists in Qing and Chinese history as well as those interested in ritual and the comparative history of dynastic states and imperial formations should find it especially appealing and worthy of a place on their reading lists and bookshelves."


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  • ISBN-13: 9780520300293
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520300297
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 544 gr


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