Helen Dunstan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Dunstan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunstan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNSTAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7936-3386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fiscal Irrationality and Dynastic Succession in Eighteenth-Century China
This is an essay about the high-Qing imperial house through the prism of a series of eleven munificent actions that subordinated the interests of the public exchequer to image-manufacture, monarchical self-assertion and monarchical self-positioning within the royal descent-line. Scrutiny of the edicts announcing the ten major revenue sacrifices (six universal land-tax remissions, four remissions of the tribute grain) and the famous freezing of th…
A Different Trajectory
This article engages critically with William Rowe's notion of an “alternative economic discourse” linking the market-consciousness shown in some aspects of Dong Wei's approach to famine relief in the Song dynasty to that which informed many subsistence-policy discussions and some aspects of bureaucratic practice during the high Qing. The longevity of the discursive tradition is shown to be understated if we start with Dong Wei, but it is also tak…
Money in Asia (1200–1900)
Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts. Edited by Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald. Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. l + 522. €180, $234
The Finance of Imperial Munificence
This article takes the management of provincial finance during the years (1746–1748) of the Qianlong emperor’s first universal tax remission as a window through which to peer inquisitively at the fiscal system of the high-Qing era. How did that system work at provincial level, and how can we use the copious statistical data in archival sources to address questions that are hard to answer precisely because of that system’s routine operating proced…
Emperor Huizong
Actualité d'Étienne Balazs (1905–1963)
Heirs of Yu the Great
This article presents a case study of the bureaucratic response to devastating floods that struck northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in 1746. It is based on the detailed official directives preserved in an anonymous casebook of administrative correspondence. The work offers revealing glimpses into the world of a senior official striving to balance correct bureaucratic procedure with prompt, meticulous attention to the pressing needs of over 800…
Fountain of Fortune
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy, providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered by the texts include water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops, brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth, self-int…
Orders go Forth in the Morning and are Changed by Nightfall”
Safely Supping with the Devil
SAFELY SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL: THE QING STATE AND ITS MERCHANT SUPPLIERS OF COPPER* Helen Dunstan Introduction Among the many merits of William T. Rowe's outstanding study of late Qing Hankow is that it has highlighted the concept of "privatization" as a key theme in late imperial Chinese economic history. Rowe represents privatization of the economy as a secular trend established by the seventeenth century if not before.1 "Privatization" in this…
The Emperor's Four Treasuries
Briefly noted
National Library of Australia, Chinese Language Newspapers in the National Library of Australia, 1987. vi, 55pp. Introduction, country index, subject index. Paper $6.95. Censorate–General in Chi'ing China, 1644–1911. Compiled by Ku Hung–ting. xii, 177pp. Chinese Materials Centre, Republic of China, Research Aids Series No. 9, 1986. US$16.50 Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual, KITLV Reprints on Indonesia (2nd Impression), Foris, Dordrecht,…
Short notices
J. I. Kermode and C. B. Phillips (eds), Medieval Cheshire (1979), ix+188 (Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 128 (1978), Liverpool, £8.50). D. M. Palliser, Tudor York (1979), xviii+328 (Oxford University Press, £12.50). Claudio Veliz, The Centralist Tradition of Latin America (1980), xii+355 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £12.50, paperback £5.40). Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial …
Ch'ing ginseng management
Ch'ing ginseng management: Ch'ing monopolies in microcosm. By Van Jay Symons. (Occasional Paper No. 13.) pp. vi, 121. Tempe, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1981. - Volume 114 Issue 1
Short notices
Claudia Ulbrich, Leibherrschaft am Oberrhein im Spatmittelalter (Veröffentlichungen des Max‐Planck‐Instituts für Geschichte 58) (1979), 327 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 70). (Serfdom on the Upper Rhine in the Later Middle Ages) Mervyn James, English Politics and the Concept of Honour, 1485–1642 (1978), 92 (Oxford, Past and Present, Supplement 3, £1.75). Walter Makey, The Church of the Covenant, 1637–1651: Revolution and Social Change in…
Short notices
Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972). J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50). John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii…
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Short notices
Claudia Ulbrich, Leibherrschaft am Oberrhein im Spatmittelalter (Veröffentlichungen des Max‐Planck‐Instituts für Geschichte 58) (1979), 327 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 70). (Serfdom on the Upper Rhine in the Later Middle Ages) Mervyn James, English Politics and the Concept of Honour, 1485–1642 (1978), 92 (Oxford, Past and Present, Supplement 3, £1.75). Walter Makey, The Church of the Covenant, 1637–1651: Revolution and Social Change in…
Short notices
Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972). J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50). John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii…
Short notices
J. I. Kermode and C. B. Phillips (eds), Medieval Cheshire (1979), ix+188 (Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. 128 (1978), Liverpool, £8.50). D. M. Palliser, Tudor York (1979), xviii+328 (Oxford University Press, £12.50). Claudio Veliz, The Centralist Tradition of Latin America (1980), xii+355 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, £12.50, paperback £5.40). Roger Elbourne, Music and Tradition in Early Industrial …
Ch'ing ginseng management
Ch'ing ginseng management: Ch'ing monopolies in microcosm. By Van Jay Symons. (Occasional Paper No. 13.) pp. vi, 121. Tempe, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1981. - Volume 114 Issue 1
Briefly noted
National Library of Australia, Chinese Language Newspapers in the National Library of Australia, 1987. vi, 55pp. Introduction, country index, subject index. Paper $6.95. Censorate–General in Chi'ing China, 1644–1911. Compiled by Ku Hung–ting. xii, 177pp. Chinese Materials Centre, Republic of China, Research Aids Series No. 9, 1986. US$16.50 Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual, KITLV Reprints on Indonesia (2nd Impression), Foris, Dordrecht,…
The Emperor's Four Treasuries
Safely Supping with the Devil
SAFELY SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL: THE QING STATE AND ITS MERCHANT SUPPLIERS OF COPPER* Helen Dunstan Introduction Among the many merits of William T. Rowe's outstanding study of late Qing Hankow is that it has highlighted the concept of "privatization" as a key theme in late imperial Chinese economic history. Rowe represents privatization of the economy as a secular trend established by the seventeenth century if not before.1 "Privatization" in this…
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age
Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy, providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered by the texts include water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops, brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth, self-int…
Orders go Forth in the Morning and are Changed by Nightfall”
Fountain of Fortune
Heirs of Yu the Great
This article presents a case study of the bureaucratic response to devastating floods that struck northern Jiangsu and Anhui provinces in 1746. It is based on the detailed official directives preserved in an anonymous casebook of administrative correspondence. The work offers revealing glimpses into the world of a senior official striving to balance correct bureaucratic procedure with prompt, meticulous attention to the pressing needs of over 800…
Actualité d'Étienne Balazs (1905–1963)
The Finance of Imperial Munificence
This article takes the management of provincial finance during the years (1746–1748) of the Qianlong emperor’s first universal tax remission as a window through which to peer inquisitively at the fiscal system of the high-Qing era. How did that system work at provincial level, and how can we use the copious statistical data in archival sources to address questions that are hard to answer precisely because of that system’s routine operating proced…
Emperor Huizong
Money in Asia (1200–1900)
Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts. Edited by Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald. Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Pp. l + 522. €180, $234
A Different Trajectory
This article engages critically with William Rowe's notion of an “alternative economic discourse” linking the market-consciousness shown in some aspects of Dong Wei's approach to famine relief in the Song dynasty to that which informed many subsistence-policy discussions and some aspects of bureaucratic practice during the high Qing. The longevity of the discursive tradition is shown to be understated if we start with Dong Wei, but it is also tak…
Fiscal Irrationality and Dynastic Succession in Eighteenth-Century China
This is an essay about the high-Qing imperial house through the prism of a series of eleven munificent actions that subordinated the interests of the public exchequer to image-manufacture, monarchical self-assertion and monarchical self-positioning within the royal descent-line. Scrutiny of the edicts announcing the ten major revenue sacrifices (six universal land-tax remissions, four remissions of the tribute grain) and the famous freezing of th…
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