Forgotten heroes : san on county and its magistrates in the late Ming and early Qing   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2574767B

  Author(s)

  Hase, Patrick H.

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789629373061 

  Date of Publication

  2017 

  Publisher

  Xianggang cheng shi da xue chu ban she  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  333 

  Series

  Royal Asiatic society Hong Kong studies series 

  Subject

  Government / Political Parties

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Hase, Patrick H.

  Publisher

  香港城市大學出版社  

• Description

  This book is an attempt to clarify the history of San On County — the broader Hong Kong area — centring on the troubled years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is based on an in-depth study of the San On County Gazetteer, which allows for a detailed discussion of the role, attitudes, and personalities of the San On magistrates, who were the heads of the county administration during this period. Particular focus is given to Zhou Xiyao (magistrate 1640–1644) and Li Kecheng (magistrate 1670–1675). The study finds that they, and at least some of the other magistrates of this period, were genuinely concerned about the county and its people, and tried as best they could to provide good and effective government for them.