Time, Temporality, and Imperial Transition: East Asia from Ming to Qing

by Lynn A. Struve

Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires--the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time--are especially significant. This important and intriguing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824828275
• ISBN13: 9780824828271
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.