Macabe started following the work of Craig Clunas, University of Oxford, History of Art.
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Graduate Student, History and East Asian Languages
Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Thesis Title: The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690
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Mark C. Elliott
Michael Szonyi Jeff Snyder-Reinke |
About
I am a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University. I received a BA in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MA in history from the George Washington University. My master’s thesis re-examined American East Asia policy in the nineteenth century, a chapter of which was published in Diplomatic History (see "papers"). My primary research interests include state formation, new institutionalism in sociology and history, rites formation, and Qing political and social order.
My dissertation explores the reconstitution of social and political order in late imperial China. I am looking at the rise of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) amidst the collapse of seventeenth century politics and society, and how Qing rulers and administrators rebuilt the institutional and imaginative frameworks to stabilize social and political life. While the story of the military accomplishments of the Qing has been well rehearsed, how the Manchus recreated the bureaucracy, established legitimacy, and effectively restored the working order of late imperial China in less than three generations remains relatively unexamined. Even more of a puzzle is the preservation of social and political structures across this time of great crisis. Indeed, how does a society go through such a transformative crisis only to be remade in a way in which it emerges stronger than before?
It is my working hypothesis that such a feat was possible not because of Sinicization, as often theorized, but rather as a result of the coordinated interests of the social elite, the bureaucracy, and the rulers. A highly developed system of opportunity, status, and political mystification bound interests and limited the possibilities of alternative social arrangements. The mechanism that made all this work was a government ministry that aligned these classes by underwriting and institutionalizing their interests. That ministry was the Board of Rites.
I am currently in Taipei working in the Grand Secretariat Archives.
