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Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule /
"This book offers a new understanding of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in early-to- mid-Qing China (1644-1800). Historians have traditionally viewed this period as one in which China's greatest emperors crafted policies that curtailed eunuch power, following its surge in th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A time of pure Yin" : Forging the seventeenth-century consensus on the nature of Ming eunuch power
- The Shunzhi emperor and his eunuchs : echoes of the Ming
- "To guard against their subtle encroachments" : The Kangxi emperor's regulation of rank-and-file eunuchs
- The influence of eunuchs in Kangxi's inner circle
- Eunuch loyalties in the Yongzheng Emperor's troubled succession
- Yongzheng's innovative rules for regulating eunuchs
- The Qianlong emperor shifts the arc of history
- Qianlong's flawed system of oversight
- The world created by Qianlong and his eunuchs.