Communication and imperial control in China. Evolution of the palace memorial system, 1693-1735

by Silas H. L. Wu

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First edition

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. 14 , 204, 2 ; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. In this definitive account of the institutional growth of Ch'ing autocracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Silas H. L. Wu examines the methods by which the Ch'ing emperors K'ang-hsi 1622-1722 and Yung-Cheng 1723-1735 kept abreast of what was happening in their empire. Mr. Wu's topic is central to understanding the

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