Maura Dykstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 7348786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maura Dykstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maura |
| FAMILY NAME | Dykstra |
| SIGNATURE | DYKSTRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6036-6440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Response to George Qiao's Review of Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine
A review published in this journal claims that my first academic monograph, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), fails to meet “basic academic standards” (George Zhijian Qiao, “Was There an Administrative Revolution? Review Essay on Maura Dykstra, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eigh…
Growing up before the Rebellion
Something happened because of the war. Scholars of the Qing agree that the fate of the dynasty was fundamentally altered by the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). In the scramble to defend the empire, organizational and material resources were mobilized on a massive scale. Local actors that had not previously played a critical role in governance began to participate in more ambitious programs for defense, public services, and revenue raising. Across …
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China
In November of 2013, Pierre-Étienne Will delivered a series of lectures at UCLA on administrative handbooks and anthologies in imperial China. Attending those talks fundamentally altered the trajectory of my research career. I had been working with materials from the Ba County collection at the Sichuan Provincial Archives for several years at that point. I considered myself no stranger to late imperial local administration. I had slowly and pains…
A Crisis of Competence
This article elaborates on the claim of this special issue that “bureaucratic actions” are “knowledge practices” that have “the power to both make and break social and material worlds” to question the standard assumption that the Qing state became increasingly corrupt over the course of the long nineteenth century. It examines the evolution of the Qing information regime in one field—prison administration—to elucidate the relationship between inf…
Cross-Jurisdictional Trade and Contract Enforcement in Qing China
This article argues that claims about the different economic trajectories of early modern Europe and late imperial China have incorrectly focused on the importance of formal contract enforcement mechanisms. As a first step toward more productive conversations about the history of economic development across world regions, this article provides a look at the factors in the development of the late imperial Chinese economy that led to the emergence …
The Order of Places
Book review of: The Order of Places: Translocal Practices of the Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China. (Sinica Leidensia vol. 119.) By Yongtao Du. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Viii + 269 p. Ill
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The Order of Places
Book review of: The Order of Places: Translocal Practices of the Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China. (Sinica Leidensia vol. 119.) By Yongtao Du. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Viii + 269 p. Ill
Cross-Jurisdictional Trade and Contract Enforcement in Qing China
This article argues that claims about the different economic trajectories of early modern Europe and late imperial China have incorrectly focused on the importance of formal contract enforcement mechanisms. As a first step toward more productive conversations about the history of economic development across world regions, this article provides a look at the factors in the development of the late imperial Chinese economy that led to the emergence …
A Crisis of Competence
This article elaborates on the claim of this special issue that “bureaucratic actions” are “knowledge practices” that have “the power to both make and break social and material worlds” to question the standard assumption that the Qing state became increasingly corrupt over the course of the long nineteenth century. It examines the evolution of the Qing information regime in one field—prison administration—to elucidate the relationship between inf…
Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China
In November of 2013, Pierre-Étienne Will delivered a series of lectures at UCLA on administrative handbooks and anthologies in imperial China. Attending those talks fundamentally altered the trajectory of my research career. I had been working with materials from the Ba County collection at the Sichuan Provincial Archives for several years at that point. I considered myself no stranger to late imperial local administration. I had slowly and pains…
Growing up before the Rebellion
Something happened because of the war. Scholars of the Qing agree that the fate of the dynasty was fundamentally altered by the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). In the scramble to defend the empire, organizational and material resources were mobilized on a massive scale. Local actors that had not previously played a critical role in governance began to participate in more ambitious programs for defense, public services, and revenue raising. Across …
Response to George Qiao's Review of Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine
A review published in this journal claims that my first academic monograph, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), fails to meet “basic academic standards” (George Zhijian Qiao, “Was There an Administrative Revolution? Review Essay on Maura Dykstra, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eigh…
Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · China (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Asian studies (2 works)