International audienceThis article takes as its starting point the radical criticism of imperial absolutism,<br />state centralization, and bureaucratization formulated by some celebrated thinkers<br />of the Ming-Qing transition, and examines what the attitude of the eighteenth- and<br />nineteenth-century administrative élite towards such problems may have been.<br />The writings of the most active and devoted among administrators during the high<br />Qing suggest that, for them, centralization, the proliferation of regulations, and the<br />extensive use of paperwork both within the state apparatus and in its dealings with<br />the people were technical problems waiting for a solution, rather than the sign of institutional decay and of a...
The article examines the relationship between the late Qing constitutional movement of 1905–1911 and...
International audienceCet article esquisse la carte des savoirs et des pratiques qui sous-tendent la...
International audienceThis article analyses the interactions between the political, the scientific, ...
International audienceThis article takes as its starting point the radical criticism of imperial abs...
Pierre-Etienne Will : Where Red Tape Comes to Man's Aid. Communication and Activism, 1600-1850. Thi...
This article elaborates on the claim of this special issue that “bureaucratic actions” are “knowledg...
International audienceThis article takes as its starting point an examination of the statute of the ...
National audienceThis article focuses on a document printed in 1820 entitled Rapport au roi sur la n...
Scholars have noticed that centrally-appointed officials in imperial China were not only beholden to...
International audienceThis article studies the still unknown phenomenon of the administrative reinte...
The formation of centralized states in Europe and other areas of the world has been one of the major...
International audienceThis article deals with the emergence, within the Interwar period, of a politi...
This article seeks an understanding of the basic assumptions underlying economic policy-making in mi...
International audienceThis article is an attempt through prosopography to examine any form - either ...
The primary goal of the 1908 petition and the constitutional government petition movement as a whole...
The article examines the relationship between the late Qing constitutional movement of 1905–1911 and...
International audienceCet article esquisse la carte des savoirs et des pratiques qui sous-tendent la...
International audienceThis article analyses the interactions between the political, the scientific, ...
International audienceThis article takes as its starting point the radical criticism of imperial abs...
Pierre-Etienne Will : Where Red Tape Comes to Man's Aid. Communication and Activism, 1600-1850. Thi...
This article elaborates on the claim of this special issue that “bureaucratic actions” are “knowledg...
International audienceThis article takes as its starting point an examination of the statute of the ...
National audienceThis article focuses on a document printed in 1820 entitled Rapport au roi sur la n...
Scholars have noticed that centrally-appointed officials in imperial China were not only beholden to...
International audienceThis article studies the still unknown phenomenon of the administrative reinte...
The formation of centralized states in Europe and other areas of the world has been one of the major...
International audienceThis article deals with the emergence, within the Interwar period, of a politi...
This article seeks an understanding of the basic assumptions underlying economic policy-making in mi...
International audienceThis article is an attempt through prosopography to examine any form - either ...
The primary goal of the 1908 petition and the constitutional government petition movement as a whole...
The article examines the relationship between the late Qing constitutional movement of 1905–1911 and...
International audienceCet article esquisse la carte des savoirs et des pratiques qui sous-tendent la...
International audienceThis article analyses the interactions between the political, the scientific, ...