The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China

Table of contents :
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
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Table of contents :
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
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