Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• NOTE ON TECHNICAL MATTERS
• REIGN TITLES OF THE CH'ING EMPERORS (1644–1911)
• PRINCIPAL EVENTS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT

• PROLOGUE
• PART ONE—  GRAND COUNCIL ANTECEDENTS IN YUNG-CHENG'S DIVIDED INNER COURT, 1723–35
  • One—  Strengthening the Inner Court in the Early Yung-cheng Period
  • Two—  Yung-cheng's Inner-Court Assistants:  Prince and Grand Secretary
  • Three—  The Inner-Court Imperial Deputies
  • Four—  The Inner-Court Subordinate Staffs Set up for the Zunghar Campaign
• PART TWO—  GRAND COUNCIL FOUNDING AND EXPANSION IN CH'IEN-LUNG'S CONSOLIDATED INNER COURT, 1735–99
  • Five—  Inner-Court Transformation under the Interim Council, 1735–38
  • Six—  The Structure of the Eighteenth-Century Grand Council
  • Seven—  Grand Council Subordinate Organizations
• PART THREE—  DENOUEMENT
  • Eight—  The Chia-ch'ing Reforms of the Grand Council, 1799–1820
• EPILOGUE

• APPENDIX A—  ANALYSIS OF "THE BOARD" NOTICES IN YUNG-CHENG–PERIOD DOCUMENTS
• APPENDIX B—  REFERENCES TO THE HIGH OFFICIALS IN CHARGE OF MILITARY FINANCE, PAN-LI CHÜN-HSU TA-CH'EN
• APPENDIX C—  NAMES OF HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE YUNG-CHENG PERIOD, PAN-LI CHÜN-HSU TA-CH'EN AND PAN-LI CHÜN-CHI TA-CH'EN
• APPENDIX D—  INNER-COURT MANCHU CLERKS OF THE YUNG-CHENG PERIOD
• APPENDIX E—  INTERIM COUNCIL EDITORIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
• APPENDIX F—  THE WORK OF THE GRAND COUNCIL MANCHU DIVISION (MAN-PAN ) AS SHOWN BY THE topICS OF ONE SAMPLE MONTH OF MANCHU PALACE MEMORIALS EARLY IN THE CH'IEN-LUNG REIGN
• Notes
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED