'They will know and fear the law' – Emperor Yongzheng’s Preface in the Great Qing Code of 1740
(2024)
Journal Article
Weimar, G. M. (2024). 'They will know and fear the law' – Emperor Yongzheng’s Preface in the Great Qing Code of 1740. Ming Qing Yanjiu, 28(1), 88-106. https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340079
The biography of the Yongzheng Emperor by Pei Huang (1974) bears the title “Autocracy at Work” and Mote (2010: 887) calls this Qing dynasty emperor a “secretive, awesome autocrat”. The translation and analysis of the Manchu text of Yongzheng’s sioi/p... Read More about 'They will know and fear the law' – Emperor Yongzheng’s Preface in the Great Qing Code of 1740.