State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644-1699

Miller, H.

Continuing the argument developed in the author's previous book, this exhaustively researched study describes the humiliation of the Chinese gentry at the hands of the statist Oboi regents in the 1660s and the Kangxi emperor's self-declared Confucian sagehood in the 1670s, which effectively trumped the gentry's claim to sovereignty.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-07-29

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349462551

DOI: 10.1057/9781137334060

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 174