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- catalog abstract "A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1722, assembled from documents that survived his reign. The Emperor K'ang-hsi, who speaks through these pages, was one of the greatest rulers in all of China's three-thousand year history, a man easily as powerful and significant as his two contemporaries Peter the Great and Louis XIV. His long reign spanned more than sixty years, from 1661 to 1722, and when he died he left a flourishing and stable kingdom more vast than any other on earth. Yet the man himself has remained unknown: like all the emperors of China, K'ang-hsi lived out his days sealed behind screens of protocol - remote, exalted, his true nature an enigma . . . Emperor of China is the inspired outgrowth of Spence's close reading of the rich stores of documents that K'ang-hsi left behind him: letters, edicts, commands, pardons, poems. Drawing from this mass only those piercingly alive fragments that bear the unmistakable stamp of K'ang-hsi's character and personality, Spence weaves them together into a brooding narrative that reads almost like a novel. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b1450572.
- catalog contributor b1450573.
- catalog created "1974.".
- catalog date "1974".
- catalog date "1974.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1974.".
- catalog description "A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1722, assembled from documents that survived his reign.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [208]-[218]".
- catalog description "K'ang-hsi's reign -- In motion -- Ruling -- Thinking -- Growing old -- Sons -- Valedictory -- Appendix A : Seventeen letters to Ku Wen-hsing, Chief Eunuch, Spring 1697 -- Appendix B : The "Final" valedictory edict.".
- catalog description "The Emperor K'ang-hsi, who speaks through these pages, was one of the greatest rulers in all of China's three-thousand year history, a man easily as powerful and significant as his two contemporaries Peter the Great and Louis XIV. His long reign spanned more than sixty years, from 1661 to 1722, and when he died he left a flourishing and stable kingdom more vast than any other on earth. Yet the man himself has remained unknown: like all the emperors of China, K'ang-hsi lived out his days sealed behind screens of protocol - remote, exalted, his true nature an enigma . . . Emperor of China is the inspired outgrowth of Spence's close reading of the rich stores of documents that K'ang-hsi left behind him: letters, edicts, commands, pardons, poems. Drawing from this mass only those piercingly alive fragments that bear the unmistakable stamp of K'ang-hsi's character and personality, Spence weaves them together into a brooding narrative that reads almost like a novel. -- Book jacket.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 217, [1], viii p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Emperor of China.".
- catalog identifier "0394488350".
- catalog isFormatOf "Emperor of China.".
- catalog issued "1974".
- catalog issued "1974.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engchi".
- catalog publisher "New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]".
- catalog relation "Emperor of China.".
- catalog subject "951/.03/0924 B".
- catalog subject "DS754.4.C53 A33 1974".
- catalog subject "Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722.".
- catalog tableOfContents "K'ang-hsi's reign -- In motion -- Ruling -- Thinking -- Growing old -- Sons -- Valedictory -- Appendix A : Seventeen letters to Ku Wen-hsing, Chief Eunuch, Spring 1697 -- Appendix B : The "Final" valedictory edict.".
- catalog title "Emperor of China; self portrait of Kʻang Hsi, by Jonathan D. Spence.".
- catalog type "text".