The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces: Agents and Interactions

256 Pages·2014·5.37 MB·English

by  Jeroen Duindam

The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces
Rulers & Elites
Comparative Studies in Governance
Series Editor
Jeroen Duindam (Leiden University)
Editorial Board
Maaike van Berkel, University of Amsterdam
Sabine Dabringhaus, Freiburg University
Yingcong Dai, William Paterson University
Jean-Pascal Daloz, Maison française, Oxford
Jos Gommans, Leiden University
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Warsaw University
Metin Kunt, Sabanci University

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The Dynastic Centre
and the Provinces
Agents and Interactions
Edited by
Jeroen Duindam and Sabine Dabringhaus
LEIDEN | BOSTON
On the cover: Painting commemorating the Kangxi Emperor’s entry in Beijing on his sixtieth birthday (1713)
with Lady Lai receiving the Imperial Procession (莱太夫人迎驾图记 / Lai taifuren ying jia tu ji). Courtesy
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The dynastic centre and the provinces : agents and interactions / edited by Jeroen Duindam and Sabine
Dabringhaus.
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 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-25148-9 (hardback : acid-free paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-27209-5 (e-book)
 1. Royal houses—History. 2. Imperialism—History. 3. Politics and culture—History. 4. China—Territories
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government—1492–1648. 9. Turkey—Politics and government. 10. Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire,
1288–1918. I. Duindam, Jeroen Frans Jozef, 1962– II. Dabringhaus, Sabine. III. Title: Dynastic centre and the
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Contents
Acknowledgements  vii
List of Figures and Maps  viii
Notes on Editors and Contributors  x
Introduction  1
Jeroen Duindam
part 1
Agents  11
The Imperial Viceroy: Reflections on an Historical Type  13
Jürgen Osterhammel
Devolution from the Centre to the Periphery: An Overview of Ottoman
Provincial Administration  30
İ. Metin Kunt
Broken Passage to the Summit: Nayancheng’s Botched Mission in the
White Lotus War  49
Yingcong Dai
Routine Promotions: Li Hu and the Dusty Byways of Empire  74
R. Kent Guy
Ceremonial Demarcations. The Viceregal Court as Space of Political
Communication in the Spanish Monarchy (Valencia, Naples, and
Mexico 1621–1635)  94
Christian Büschges
The Ambans of Tibet—Imperial Rule at the Inner Asian Periphery  114
Sabine Dabringhaus
part 2
Interactions  127
Remonstrating Against Royal Extravagance in Imperial China  129
Patricia Ebrey
‘True and Historical Descriptions’? European Festivals and the
Printed Record  150
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
vi contents
Ceremonial Entries and the Confirmation of Urban Privileges in
France, c. 1350–1550  160
Neil Murphy
‘Willingly We Follow a Gentle Leader . . .’: Joyous Entries into
Antwerp  185
Margit Thøfner
Historical Narratives of the Kangxi Emperor’s Inaugural Visit
to Suzhou, 1684  203
Michael G. Chang
Towards a Comparative Understanding of Rulership: Discourses, Practices,
Patterns  225
Jeroen Duindam
Index  233
Acknowledgements
This volume is the result of cooperation among several institutions and persons. The
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) combined forces in an initiative to Coordinate Research between
Europe and China (Co-Reach), the wider framework of our project: ‘Structures and
Legacies of Dynastic Power in Late Imperial China and Early Modern Europe’. The world
of acronyms and institutions, however, in practice works only through the active support
of a number of persons. We would like to thank in particular: Dr. Berry J. Bonenkamp
(NWO), Dr. Thomas Reineke (BMBF/Deutsche Luft- und Raumfahrtbehörde), Dr. Philip
Thelen (DFG) and Dr. Liu Yingxiang (Bureau of International Cooperation, CASS) for
their support.
Wu Boya (Beijing), Sabine Dabringhaus (Freiburg) and Jeroen Duindam (Leiden)
worked together to organise three meetings, a first introductory workshop in Beijing
(16–19 December 2009) followed by conferences in Wolfenbüttel (16–18 March 2011) and
Leiden (31 August–2 September 2011). Scholars from China, the Netherlands, Germany,
Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Australia and the United States participated in the
conferences. The practical aspects of these meetings were made possible by the indefati-
gable support of Cilia Neumann, Rebecca Wensma, and Sander Molenaar. In Wolfenbüttel
Volker Bauer and Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer contributed both to the practical and intel-
lectual aspects of our meetings; colleagues from the universities of Leiden, Utrecht and
Amsterdam stepped in to chair meetings at the Leiden conference, and contributed to
our discussions, Harriet Zurndorfer, Jos Gommans, and Maarten Prak among them.
In addition several people helped to turn our selection of conference papers into the
sections and chapters of this book. Without their efforts this volume would probably
not have come about. Special thanks go to Kate Delaney for her careful editing of the
texts, and to David Claszen for proofreading and compiling the index. At Brill, Arjan van
Dijk, Ivo Romein, Marti Huetink and Rosanna Woensdregt have been a constant sup-
port; in addition Brill sponsored a reception at our Leiden meeting, which also served to
present the first volume in this series, Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires.
Finally we thank all the participants of our three meetings for their intellectually
challenging but good-humoured input. Susan Naquin, Craig Clunas, Christian Windler,
Joseph Bergin, Julian Swann, and Jan Hennings, among others, were key participants in
these meetings even if their presence is only indirectly reflected in this volume.
However incomplete this collection may still seem, it presents a first step to a compre-
hensive comparison between monarchies in Europe and China.
The editors
List of Figures and Maps
Yingcong Dai
1 Map of Qing China  59
2 Map of Nayancheng’s travels and major battles  60
R. Kent Guy
1 Map of Li Hu’s posts in Shandong  78
2 Map of Li Hu’s posts in Zhili  83
Patricia Ebrey
1 Playing Polo in the Palace Grounds, 1573  132
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
1 Stuttgart baptism 1617. Felicitas and Concordia  157
2 Festival on the occasion of Elector Ernst August’s visit to Piazzola, 1685.
The Arrival of Neptune  159
Neil Murphy
1 Charles VII’s entry into Paris in 1437  164
2 Charles VI greeted on horseback by the municipal council at his
inaugural entry into Paris in 1380  176
3 The presentation of gifts of silverware to King Charles V of France
and the Emperor Charles IV following their joint entry into Paris
in 1378  178
Margit Thøfner
1 Anjou’s Antwerp entry 1582. The Duke of Anjou before the Triumphal Arch
on the Sint-Jansbrug mounted for his Joyous Entry  188
2 Detail of figure 1, The Duke of Anjou before the Triumphal Arch  189
3 Farnese’s Antwerp entry 1585. The Keizerspoort or Gate of St. George and
surrounding ramparts  193
4 Albert and Isabel’s Antwerp entry, 1599. Inauguratio extra urbem  197
5 Albert and Isabel’s Antwerp entry, 1599. Introitus in urbem  197
6 Albert and Isabel’s Antwerp entry, 1599. Typus Herculis Gallici  199
list of figures and maps ix
7 Albert and Isabel’s Antwerp entry, 1599. Inaugurationis apparatus
in foro  201
Michael G. Chang
1 Map of the Kangxi emperor’s southern tours  205
2 The Kangxi Emperor and his retinue in Shandong province during his
second southern tour in 1689  207
Notes on Editors and Contributors
The Editors
Jeroen Duindam
Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leiden, focuses on the
comparative study of courts and dynasties in Europe and Asia. He is the
author of Vienna and Versailles. The Court of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals
(Cambridge, 2013; Italian and Spanish translations) and Myths of Power.
Norbert Elias and the Early Modern European Court (Amsterdam, 1995).
Currently Duindam writes a comparative global history of dynastic power,
to be published by Cambridge University Press: Dynasty: A Global History
1300–1800.
Sabine Dabringhaus
is Professor of East Asian History at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Dabringhaus studies the imperial history of the Qing dynasty, Chinese
nationalism in the 20th century, and the history of overseas Chinese. Her
current interests are in the area of the environmental history of China. Her
publications include Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in
Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun, 1752–1835 (Stuttgart, 1994), Territorialer
Nationalismus in China. Historisch-Geographisches Denken, 1900–1949
(Cologne, 2006), and Chinas Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert (Munich, 2009).
The Contributors
Christian Büschges
is Professor of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Bern.
His main areas of research concern ethnicity and politics in Latin American
and global history, concepts of nobility and noble groups in colonial Iberian
America, and the vice-regal courts of the Spanish monarchy. He is the author
of Demokratie und Völkermord. Ethnizität im politischen Raum (Göttingen,
2013) and Familie, Ehre und Macht. Konzept und soziale Wirklichkeit des Adels
in der Stadt Quito (Ecuador) während der späten Kolonialzeit, 1765–1822
(Stuttgart, 1996) and co-edited a volume on Etnicidad y poder en los países
andinos (Quito, 2007).