Saving the World Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China

"Rowe's new work can be said to be a model of painstaking and exhaustive research. It is also quite possibly the best single study ever written anywhere of the life, thought and career of a pre-1800 Chinese scholar-official . . . .This is a brilliant picture of the world of a major Chinese thinker and bureaucrat in the 1700s . . . .[It is] must reading for anyone interested in the thought and practices of Chinese politics after 1700."Pacific Affairs "Whatever doubts may remain regarding the phrase "early modernity" or how well Chen Hongmou represented the mainstream of eighteenth-century bureaucratic thinking, historians of China owe a debt to Rowe for sharing his stunning research talents with us in this impressive piece of scholarship."Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesRowe, William T. is the author of 'Saving the World Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China' with ISBN 9780804748186 and ISBN 0804748187.