The District Magistrate In Late Imperial China

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Acknowledgments Contents Introduction: Chtng administration as a subject of western: some personal considerations Part I: The office and its incumbents 1 Powers of the district magistrate 2 Qualifications of district magistrates: Intellectual attainment 3 The path to office: Appointment 4 Length of service and subsequent career 5 Influence of classical theory on the role of magistrate 6 Distinctiveness of chtng administrative theory: Relationship of Ch’ing conceptions with classical Confucian theory Part II: Evolution of the office 7 Centralization and diversification in Chinese political development 8 Centralization of district administration under the Sung and Ming dynasties 9 The breakdown of the li-chia system 10 Reforms in local administration during the late Ming and early Ch’ing dynasties Part III: Politics of ch’ing district administration 11 Conflicts between “public” and “private” 12 Control of local administrative authority 13 Surveillance of rural life 14 Impact of fiscal policies 15 Social conflict: the problem of litigation 16 Government by men: the struggle to uphold political humanism Appendix I: Magistrates of Wu-hsien, Ch’ang-chou, and Yuan-ho districts Appendix II: Career patterns of magistrates of T’an and Shen clans Appendix III: Career patterns of magistrates of Li-Yang and Chin-Shan districts Appendix IV: Biographical notes on Ch'ing administrative writers cited in this study Notes Bibliography Glossary Index