Fund-Raising Wars

Office Selling and Interprovincial Finance in Nineteenth-Century China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23239787
AutoresElisabeth Kaske (autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen71
Número1
Páginas69-141
Fecha de publicación2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0073-0548 • E-ISSN: 1944-6454
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jas.2011.0006
OpenAlexW1595989436
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas20

Elisabeth Kaske illuminates changes in relations between the center and the provinces after the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) by analyzing the transprovincial fund-raising campaigns that sold offices to supply provincial war chests. After rebellion nearly destroyed the Qing empire, the throne appointed military leaders to positions of power in the provinces. Scholars have long been discussing the consequences: did state power devolve into the hands of regional leaders, or did the central government reassert its authority? By taking interprovincial relations into account, Kaske shows that the provinces neither became fiscally autonomous from the center nor could ignore the interests of other provinces. Rather, provincial leaders, the Board of Revenue, and the throne renegotiated the rules of revenue sharing. As some provinces gained fiscal strength, they became increasingly responsible for matters of empire, such as the recovery of war-torn border regions.

Business · China · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Empire · Government (linguistics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Raising (metalworking) · Revenue · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Throne · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies