Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical precedents & the multivalence of imperial touring
  • "Following ancestors": the ethno-dynastic imperative of imperial touring, 1680s & 1740s
  • Putting a court on horseback: the logistics & politics of a moving court
  • The perils of peace & the politics of empire: wars, tours, & military readiness
  • "Returning to purity & simplicity:" the southern tours & intra-elite competition in an age of commercialization
  • The southern tours as cultural encompassment: the valorization of verse & the accommodation of Han learning
  • The poetics & politics of Qianlong's encounter with Jiangnan
  • Popular perceptions & the primacy of ethno-dynastic politics, 1765-1785.