Bureaucratic reform in provincial China: Ting Jih-ch'ang in restoration Kiangsu, 1867-1870

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Man and the Province -- Rectifying Society -- Judicial Administration and Reform -- Fiscal Affairs -- Personnel -- Conclusion -- Degree Status of Local Officials: Kiangsu, 1864-1870 -- The Correlation Between the Length of Tenure and a Post's Degree of Difficulty -- Compliance to Orders on Registers for Documents and for Litigation and Prisons -- Compliance to Orders on Tax Rate Notices -- Officials with Repeated Service in Kiangsu -- Magistrates Appointed to Devastated Hsiens and to the Head Hsiens -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.