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In a new study of the Qing government’s 1826 experiment in sea transport of government grain in response to the collapse of the Grand Canal (1825), Jane Kate Leonard highlights how the Daoguang Emperor, together with Yinghe, his chief fiscal adviser, and Qishan, Governor-General of Liangjiang, devised and implemented this innovative plan by temporarily stretching the Qing bureaucracy to include local “assistant” officials and ad hoc bureaus (ju) and by recruiting (zhaoshang) private organizations, such as merchant shippers, dockside porters, and lighterage fleets. This is significant because it explains how the Qing leadership was able to respond successfully to crises and change without permanently expanding the reach and expense of the permanent bureaucracy.
Price: $129.00
Pages: 194
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900
Publication Date:
20 December 2018
ISBN: 9789004384576
Format: Hardcover
Jane Kate Leonard (Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971) is professor emerita of history (University of Akron). She has published monographs on early nineteenth-century Chinese thought and institutions, including Wei Yuan and China’s Rediscovery of the Maritime World (Harvard East Asian Studies, 1984); “Controlling from Afar.” The Daoguang Emperor’s Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824–1826 (Ann Arbor; Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996).