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Editor's Preface | p. viii |
Author's Preface | p. ix |
List of Maps and Illustrations | p. xiii |
Emperor in the Making | p. 1 |
Death of an Emperor | p. 1 |
Rearing a Prince | p. 3 |
Young Hungli | p. 5 |
Destined to Rule | p. 7 |
Favorite Son | p. 9 |
Qianlong Takes Charge | p. 12 |
The New Emperor | p. 12 |
Overview of the Qing Imperium | p. 13 |
His Father's Legacy | p. 18 |
First Steps | p. 19 |
Experiments with Authority | p. 21 |
The Emperor's Schedule | p. 23 |
Early Successes on the Frontier | p. 25 |
Consolidator or Innovator? | p. 28 |
Finding His Stride | p. 30 |
Family, Ritual, and Dynastic Rule | p. 34 |
Filial Son | p. 35 |
Qianlong and His Mother | p. 36 |
Married to the Emperor | p. 39 |
Death of an Empress | p. 41 |
More Hair-Cutting | p. 44 |
The Lonely Widower | p. 46 |
All My Children | p. 47 |
The Dilemma of Manchu Success | p. 50 |
Condemned by Success | p. 50 |
The Jin Precedent | p. 51 |
The Creation of the Manchus | p. 53 |
The Dilemma of the Manchu Occupation | p. 54 |
The Power of Words | p. 56 |
Inventing History | p. 58 |
Taming Shamanic Rites | p. 60 |
Warrior Ways | p. 61 |
Hunting for Real Men | p. 64 |
Protecting the Roots | p. 65 |
The Peripatetic Sovereign | p. 68 |
The Politics of Touring | p. 68 |
You Can Go Home Again | p. 71 |
The Buddhist Pilgrim | p. 72 |
The Ardent Confucian | p. 76 |
The Southern Tours | p. 78 |
Building the Empire | p. 86 |
The Warrior King | p. 88 |
The Conquest of the Far West: The First Dzungar Campaign | p. 90 |
The Second Dzungar Campaign | p. 93 |
The Conquest of the Tarim | p. 95 |
The Limits of Empire | p. 97 |
The Qing and Islam | p. 99 |
Inscribing Victory | p. 100 |
Mapping Victory | p. 101 |
The Look of Victory | p. 102 |
Renaissance Man | p. 107 |
A Portrait of the Artist | p. 108 |
The Poet | p. 111 |
The Collector | p. 113 |
Possessing the World | p. 116 |
The Patron of Letters | p. 117 |
The Censor | p. 121 |
Intellectual Agendas | p. 123 |
Qing China and the World | p. 125 |
Foreign Relations and the Tribute System | p. 126 |
In His Majesty's Special Service | p. 129 |
Guests from Afar | p. 131 |
All the Tea in China | p. 132 |
The Macartney Mission | p. 134 |
China in the World | p. 139 |
Order and Decline in the Late Qianlong Era | p. 143 |
The Later Qianlong Empire | p. 143 |
Qianlong and Tibet | p. 144 |
Population and Economy | p. 146 |
Securing the People's Welfare | p. 149 |
Limits of Authority | p. 151 |
He¿en and the Perennial Problem of Corruption | p. 153 |
The Center Cannot Hold | p. 157 |
The Final Act | p. 160 |
Conclusion | p. 162 |
Pronunciation Key and Glossary | p. 168 |
Timeline of the Qianlong Era | p. 177 |
Bibliographic Essay | p. 179 |
Index | p. 187 |
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