Pub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.5117/9789463720359_ch07
Martina Siebert
The chapter explores the growing of lotus in water spaces under the control of the Imperial Household Department in and around Beijing. This seemingly minor organizational task with meagre financial returns was nevertheless regulated to the detail and established dependencies of tenants and officials, of working tools and paper trails, as well as between the flows of money and an unpredictable nature. Together they built a functional sub-part of the court’s ideological project of presenting itself as economically efficient. The chapter argues that the undertaking was an ideologically efficacious spectacle visible in the bureaucratic process and in the lakes and moats around the Forbidden City which were beautifully covered with lotus plants.
{"title":"Growing and Organizing Lotus in Qing Imperial Spaces","authors":"Martina Siebert","doi":"10.5117/9789463720359_ch07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463720359_ch07","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter explores the growing of lotus in water spaces under the\u0000 control of the Imperial Household Department in and around Beijing.\u0000 This seemingly minor organizational task with meagre financial returns\u0000 was nevertheless regulated to the detail and established dependencies of\u0000 tenants and officials, of working tools and paper trails, as well as between\u0000 the flows of money and an unpredictable nature. Together they built a\u0000 functional sub-part of the court’s ideological project of presenting itself as\u0000 economically efficient. The chapter argues that the undertaking was an\u0000 ideologically efficacious spectacle visible in the bureaucratic process and\u0000 in the lakes and moats around the Forbidden City which were beautifully\u0000 covered with lotus plants.","PeriodicalId":210612,"journal":{"name":"Making the Palace Machine Work","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117009609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.5117/9789463720359_ch09
Hui-chun Yu
The Forbidden City, the symbolic and actual centre of power of the Qing Empire, was crowded with animals. This chapter focuses on elephants, a crucial part of imperial ceremonial processions. As performers in various imperial ritual ceremonies from the early Qing to almost the end of the dynasty, elephants exemplified how the palace machine of performative emperorship domesticated and imperialized wild animals, made them subject to imperial rule and metaphoric paragons of imperial virtue.
{"title":"When There Is Peace, There Are Elephants","authors":"Hui-chun Yu","doi":"10.5117/9789463720359_ch09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463720359_ch09","url":null,"abstract":"The Forbidden City, the symbolic and actual centre of power of the Qing\u0000 Empire, was crowded with animals. This chapter focuses on elephants, a\u0000 crucial part of imperial ceremonial processions. As performers in various\u0000 imperial ritual ceremonies from the early Qing to almost the end of the\u0000 dynasty, elephants exemplified how the palace machine of performative\u0000 emperorship domesticated and imperialized wild animals, made them\u0000 subject to imperial rule and metaphoric paragons of imperial virtue.","PeriodicalId":210612,"journal":{"name":"Making the Palace Machine Work","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134495070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-12DOI: 10.1515/9789048553228-007
C. Moll-Murata
{"title":"1 Working the Qing Palace Machine","authors":"C. Moll-Murata","doi":"10.1515/9789048553228-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553228-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210612,"journal":{"name":"Making the Palace Machine Work","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132454554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conventions for the Notation of Time, Weights, and Measures","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv6hp2q9.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6hp2q9.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210612,"journal":{"name":"Making the Palace Machine Work","volume":"17 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126965709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-03-27DOI: 10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199540914.003.0007
Yuval Ginbar
{"title":"[Part II Introduction]","authors":"Yuval Ginbar","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199540914.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199540914.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210612,"journal":{"name":"Making the Palace Machine Work","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122797215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：