Online-Lecture: Prof. Elizabeth Kaske (Leipzig): „Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune: Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety“
Online-Lecture: Prof. Elizabeth Kaske (Leipzig): „Late Qing Perceptions of Risk and Fortune: Plotting Careers in an Age of Anxiety“
Abstract: One aspect that strikes observers of nineteenth-century China is the apparent lack of panic in the face of foreign aggression among Qing officials. Max Weber, an avid reader of Peking Gazette translations and the English-language press of coastal China, identified the precarity of status and income—rather than Confucian conservatism—as the main impediment to reform. […]