Eunuch and emperor in the great age of Qing rule
題名:
Eunuch and emperor in the great age of Qing rule
作者:
Kutcher, Norman Alan, author.
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9780520297524
稽核項:
xxiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
內容:
Introduction -- "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 -- Conclusion.
摘要:
"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 the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Using archival, epigraphic, and other newly available sources, Norman Kutcher demonstrates the continuing influence and even empowerment of eunuchs throughout this period. The book traces this empowerment to eunuchs' exploitation of the gap between imperial rhetoric and practice and to their networking and other collective action in and beyond the city of Beijing"--Provided by publisher.
書目索引附錄等註:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-300) and index.
登入號(微縮資料號):
npmlib 10802668 HQ449 K88 ysh