The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China

Reviews / Votes

"[Keliher] has produced an extremely valuable and well-balanced work that will stand the test of time." * China Review International * "The book exists in an intersecting zone of institutional, political, and legal histories of Imperial China while dealing with various primary sources in Manchu and classical Chinese. As he concludes his book while locating the specific Qing institutional history in world history, it will also provide a useful backdrop not only for historians of Imperial China but also for researchers conducting comparative studies of the political system of East Asia." * Journal of East Asian Studies * "For historians of the Qing dynasty . . . this is one of those wonderful books that says something that the moment you read it you know is completely obvious but somehow no one has seen before." * English Historical Review * "By taking seriously his protagonists' preoccupation with li/doro/ritual as recorded in the historical sources, Macabe Keliher has produced an enriching and important work of scholarship that may be appreciated on a number of levels. . . . Specialists in Qing and Chinese history as well as those interested in ritual and the comparative history of dynastic states and imperial formations should find it especially appealing and worthy of a place on their reading lists and bookshelves." * Journal of Chinese History *