Of minds, morals, and methods: Combining moral meteorology and disaster relief in historiography of China’s disaster management

• Main Author: LIM, Wee Kiat
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Disaster Management; Governance; China; Qing Dynasty; Historiography; Asian Studies; Emergency and Disaster Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cmp_research/5; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=cmp_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this working paper, I argue that disaster management in high Qing period can be better understood by simultaneously considering the historiographies of how governing elites understood disasters at the metaphysical level and the administration of disaster relief. During High Qing late imperial Chi...