Communication and Imperial Control in China. Evolution of the Palace Memorial System 1693-1735.. This item is unavailable.Communication and Imperial Control in China. Evolution of the Palace Memorial System 1693-1735.

viii + 204pp, abbreviations, index, glossary, appendix, notes, ex-library with usual stamps and markings, spine very faded, browned and marked where label has been removed, still a good hardback copy. "In this definitive account of the institutional growth of Ch'ing autocracy in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Silas H. L. Wu examines the methods by which the Ch'ing emperors K'ang-hsi (1622-1722) and Yung-Cheng (1723-1735) kept abreast of what was happening in their empire. Mr. Wu's topic is central to understanding the long life of the empire, as these methods of obtaining information were crucial to the success of the dynasty." (Publisher's description).