• Winner of the 1990 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies

A masterful study by one of the West's premier Chinese historians.
   --Frederic Wakeman, Jr, New York Review of Books

Kuhn's fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt.
   --New Yorker

A subtle, powerful, and still relevant inquiry into the dynamics of autocratic rule.
   --From the Joseph Levenson Book Prize Citation

Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

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• National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China