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Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.

Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: 16/08/2022
      ISBN13: 9780674270954, 978-0674270954
      ISBN10: 0674270959

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      Book Synopsis
      Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.

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