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Monarchy in the emperor's eyes : image and reality in the Chíen-lung reign

Title
Monarchy in the emperor's eyes : image and reality in the Chíen-lung reign / Harold L. Kahn.
Author
Kahn, Harold L.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971.

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Description
ix, 314 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Harvard East Asian series ; 59
Uniform Title
Harvard East Asian series ; 59.
Subject
  • Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799
  • Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799
  • Qing Gaozong China, Kaiser 1711-1799
  • Qing Gaozong (empereur de Chine ; 1711-1799)
  • China Zusammenstellung
  • 1736-1795
  • Geschichte 1736-1795
  • China > History > Qianlong, 1736-1795
  • China
  • China > History > Qianlong, 1736-1795
  • Chine > 1736-1795 (Qianlong)
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [271]-288.
Contents
Ego enthroned -- Official historiography: the limits of objectivity -- Private historiography -- The fractured image -- Mother and son: lessons in applied piety -- Two brothers: lessons in the public life -- Sources of the self-image: the curriculum -- Sources of the self-image: the tutors -- The self-image: preparation for reality -- Abdication ceremony: the implications of ritual -- The Beau Geste as high politics: history and precedent -- Secret succession and the control of cliques -- 1796-1799: a Ho-shen regency?
ISBN
  • 0674582306
  • 9780674582309
LCCN
75135546
OCLC
  • ocm00141230
  • 141230
  • SCSB-153861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library