Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs

Robert J. Antony is Associate Professor of History at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China, Institute for East Asian Studies Monograph Series, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.Jane Kate Leonard is Professor of History at the University of Akron. Her previous publications include To Achieve Security and Wealth: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644-1911 (CEAS No. 56).

The collection brings together a rich range of scholarly papers that singly and together make a welcome contribution to our understanding of Qing administration. The editors do an excellent job of summing up [the] themes in a succinct, clearly written introduction. The book's title inadequately reflects the book's contribution... the chapters in toto provide a broader understanding of the nature of Qing administration than simply that of crisis management. Given the broad contribution of this collection, its readership should not be limited to specialists in Qing administration.(The China Journal) Scholars of Chinese history or of comparative political culture will find [this book] to be an exceptionally useful collection of case studies of the Qing state, in all its diversity, in action.(Journal of Asian History)