Making the Palace Machine Work Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
This volume brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire. An enormous apparatus that employed 22,000 men and women at its heyday,...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
2021
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |