Qing Governors and Their Provinces - R. Kent Guy - Bog

This comprehensive study of the shift to the province as an increasingly important element in management of the expanding Chinese empire concentrates on powerful provincial governors who extended the central government's influence into the most distant territories. Personnel records and biographies provide colorful details about the governors' lives, accomplishments, misfortunes, and feuds.--R. Kent Guy is professor of history at the University of Washington.