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A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.

The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the

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Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women dis