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Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China. By William T. Rowe. [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii+601 pp. £40.00, $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-3735-5.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2003

Peter C. Perdue
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The name Chen Hongmou (1696–1771) rings few bells today. Yet he was probably the most influential official of his time. A tough, honest, active man, not exactly a likable person, he was someone deeply dedicated to improving the people's welfare. In short, a model Qing official. In this blockbuster of a book, William T. Rowe uses Chen's life to examine the culture of the 18th-century bureaucracy, encompassing nearly all the classic problems of Chinese society, past and present.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 172 , December 2002 , pp. 1065 - 1103
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© The China Quarterly, 2002

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