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Shangyu Tiaoli and the Study of Qing Central Government Legislative Agendas 上虞蕉里与清朝中央政府立法议程研究

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a918494

Lawrence Zhang, Chong Li

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Message from the Editor 编辑的话

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a918492

Steven B. Miles

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Becoming Inner Kirghiz: Qing Policy Toward the Five Tribes in Xinjiang, 1750s–1790s 成为内吉尔吉斯人:清朝对新疆五部落的政策，1750 - 1790年

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a899674

Jaymin Kim

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List of Contributors 贡献者名单

2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a899671

Jaymin Kim

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Judicial Storytelling: Marriage Controversies in a Late Ming Case Collection 司法讲故事:晚明案件集中的婚姻纠纷

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a899672

Tony D. Qian

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Negotiating Ancestorhood: Epitaphs for the Unburied in Ming-Qing China 协商祖先身份:中国明清未葬人的墓志铭

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2023.a899673

J. Suh

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War and Technology: Ding Gongchen and His Cannon Practice Manuals 战争与技术：丁公臣及其大炮练习手册

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2022.0012

S. Fong

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"Killing the Adulterer": Masculine Revenge Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century China “杀奸夫”:17世纪中国的男性复仇幻想

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2022.0010

Mengdie Zhao

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Mapping Pasturelands: The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Qing Mongolia 牧场测绘：19世纪清蒙古地理知识的产生

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2022.0013

Anne-Sophie Pratte

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Local Politics and Book Production: The Popularization of Genealogies in Southern China, 1750s–1920s 地方政治与图书生产:1750 - 1920年代华南地区家谱的普及

IF 0.4 2区历史学

LATE IMPERIAL CHINA Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/late.2022.0011

Xin Yu

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