{"product_id":"saving-the-world-9780804748186","title":"Saving the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the case of a single well-placed official, Chen Hongmou (1696-1771), this book studies the consciousness and the governing project of the 18th-century Chinese official-elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rowe's new work can be said to be a model of painstaking and exhaustive research. It is also quite possibly the best single study ever written anywhere of the life, thought and career of a pre-1800 Chinese scholar-official . . . .This is a brilliant picture of the world of a major Chinese thinker and bureaucrat in the 1700s . . . .[It is] must reading for anyone interested in the thought and practices of Chinese politics after 1700.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whatever doubts may remain regarding the phrase \"early modernity\" or how well Chen Hongmou represented the mainstream of eighteenth-century bureaucratic thinking, historians of China owe a debt to Rowe for sharing his stunning research talents with us in this impressive piece of scholarship.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a large, important, and most welcome book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this blockbuster book, William T. Rowe uses Chen's life to examine the culture of the 18th-century bureaucracy, encompassing nearly all the classic problems of Chinese society, past and present.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is an essential and thought-provoking work that contributes greatly to the study of Qing history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChina Review International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is the merit of Rowe's fine analysis that it opens a world of discourse to future students of China's Eighteenth Century...\" -- \u003ci\u003eEtudes Chinoises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  Preface  Introduction  1. Being a Man: 1. Home  2. Politics  3. First things  4. Study  Part II. Creating Prosperity: 5. Food  6. Economics  7. Production  8. Accumulation  Part III. Ordering the World: 9. People  10. Governance  11. Community  12. Civilization  Conclusion  Notes  References  Character List  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405555442007,"sku":"9780804748186","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804748186.jpg?v=1730492817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saving-the-world-9780804748186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}