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  • 5 - Relieving Famines

  • from Text 5 - On Relieving the People’s Suffering
  • Edited by Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Lianbin Dai, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book:
    Chinese Statecraft
    Published online:
    17 July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025, pp 80-92

  • Summary

    Chapter 16 of DYB introduces a range of relief policies to succour the victims of natural disasters that Qiu Jun considers should be developed by the Ming state. His references go back to the Rites of Zhou and include a significant amount of Tang and Song precedents. He particularly insists on preparedness measures and on the pre-eminent role of the state to store the surpluses produced by society and redistribute them in years of famine – hence, for example, his reservations regarding public granaries run by local notables – and, more generally, to preserve the stability of local communities confronted with subsistence crises. If Qiu’s recommendations do not seem to have had much impact, if any, on Ming relief policies, several of them anticipate the setting up of a centrally controlled and fairly efficient system of famine relief under the Qing.

  • 2 - The Institutions and Individuals behind Wartime Grain Management and Military Supply

  • Jennifer Yip, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    Grains of Conflict
    Published online:
    23 August 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025, pp 60-106

  • Summary

    This chapter studies civilian grain management agencies and the logistical branch of Nationalist China’s armed forces, the Supply and Baggage troops. It highlights two key policy shifts: provisioning armies in kind, and centralizing and collecting land tax in kind. While these changes shielded army consumers from inflation to some degree, overlapping mandates among multiple agencies produced confusion throughout the war zones, and the Supply and Baggage troops were plagued by both inadequate training and a historical disdain for logistics. However, blanket accusations of ineptitude obscure the fact that, despite large variations in climate, infrastructure and politics across Free China, these institutions fulfilled their basic task: collecting and circulating enough grain to keep the Nationalists in the war. The chapter also uncovers details about the everyday endeavors of low-level grain management officials and military transport personnel, the individuals who implemented provisioning plans but who remain nameless and forgotten in the literature. Moreover, despite systemic weaknesses, a cadre of experts worked to elevate the status of logistics within Nationalist armies.

  • 3 - The Problem of Monarchy

  • from Text 3 - Detecting Latent Signs
  • Edited by Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Lianbin Dai, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book:
    Chinese Statecraft
    Published online:
    17 July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025, pp 41-56

  • Summary

    Monarchy has been a universal form of government in earlier centuries, though it involves the structural problem of all decision-making stemming from one individual. Qiu Jun did not challenge the legitimacy of monarchy, but he constructed advice that would encourage his monarch to be alert to change, cautious about his decisons, and attentive to the advice of his best ministers. This chapter also considers the critique of monarchy in Europe at this time, where the Jesuits presented Ming China as an ideal monarchy, and the growing challenge to the divine right of kings, which would eventually lead to the delegitimization of this form of government.

  • Empress Dowager Lou the Kingmaker: Succession, Marriage, Identity, and Politics in Northern Qi (550–577)

  • Soojung Han
  • Journal:
    Journal of Chinese History / Volume 10 / Issue 1 / January 2026
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 July 2025, pp. 49-81
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  • Delving into fraternal succession, intermarriage practices, and levirate marriages of the Northern Qi dynasty (550–577), this article demonstrates that these practices served as pillars of stability for the imperial family. In this exploration, Empress Dowager Lou 婁太后 (501–562) emerges as the central figure behind these practices, playing a pivotal role in their implementation and wielding immense power as kingmaker. Starting from before the official reign of the Northern Qi, she personally chose her husband, laid the groundwork for him to become regent of the preceding Eastern Wei (534–550) court, and controlled the succession system to seat her own sons as emperors of the Northern Qi. Drawing on her Xianbei 鮮卑 roots, Empress Dowager Lou enforced an agenda of Inner Asian practices and politics in her pursuit to consolidate the rule and identity of the Northern Qi imperial family.

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