Ts`ao Yin and the K`ang-hsi Emperor

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Bondservant and Master, Second edition

Jonathan D. Spence

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"Spence’s study, elegantly researched, explores the social and political life of the early Manchu period, a time when the English were fighting over religion and New England was the home of a few struggling Puritan Settlements."—Washington Post Book World

"A brilliant synthesis of biographical, social, economic and institutional history,this book is a 'life and times' in the best sense of the term. It uses Ts'ao Yin's career to illuminate the Chinese governmental institutions in which he served between 1674 and 1712, and these institutions to explain the twists and turns of his own progress. . . . This masterly work is clearly a 'must' for all those who are interested in the long and eventful reign of the K'ang-hsi Emperor, which . . . still remains one of the most fascinating and rewarding periods in Chinese history."—C.R. Boxer, Journal of Asian History
 
"A complex, intelligent work. . . . What it meant to be textile commissioner, salt censor, imperial host, imperial informant, general member of the upper class—all of this, in all its industrial, financial, administrative, and cultural implications—comes to life."—Joseph R. Levenson, American Historical Review

"A significant portrait of a family, a society, and part of an age."—Wang Gungwu, Journal of Asian Studies

"[A] remarkably fine history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Chinese social and political institutions. . . . Rewarding as well as delightful reading."—E-tu Zen Sun, Journal of the American Oriental Society

"A complex, intelligent work. . . . What it meant to be textile commissioner, salt censor, imperial host, imperial informant, general member of the upper class—all of this, in all its industrial, financial, administrative, and cultural implications—comes to life."—Joseph R. Levenson, American Historical Review
ISBN: 9780300042771
Publication Date: September 10, 1988
352 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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