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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 10:10pm on 07/03/2010
No. It's not likely to be translated, either, as it's a rather dense text (like most registries) and most people who even know it exists can already read it in its original language. It's also huge. I'm working with a 30 year span, which is contained in a 46-volume set, with each volume clocking in at several hundred pages. The whole thing (mid-18th century to late 19th) is probably 5x that length.

I may fully translate a few of the summaries in the course of my research, in which case I'll probably post them. They'll be boring, though (Gov. Yutai thanks the emperor for his appointment. Gov. Yutai is inspecting the grain silos in Jiangsu. That sort of thing.) I find the text exciting more in aggregate (the wealth of data available) than individually (which is about as interesting as government paperwork throughout the world.)
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posted by [identity profile] gbsteve.livejournal.com at 11:11pm on 07/03/2010
I thought it might make an interesting document on which to base a game. I'm not quite sure how though but the entries seem to make up one side of a greater story that could be expanded upon by the players.

But that aside, as a civil servant and an operational researcher, I'm interested in the question as to how many civil servants you need for the proper functioning of government. I wonder if there are any equivalent documents in English.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 07/03/2010
Huh.

That's an interesting idea. A game about the Qing period based on memorial summaries as a situation root? Huh.

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posted by [personal profile] summercomfort at 05:38pm on 08/03/2010
Haha. YES THIS. Memorials are so impressively awesome/trivial because it reminds me that the past is full of functioning boringness. It's not just the "Best of" that we usually get when discussing history.
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posted by [identity profile] kitsuchan.livejournal.com at 06:37pm on 08/03/2010
I think that's one reason why our professor had us pick a year and then look up all the edicts that were issued on our birthday of that year. You really get a sense of all the random trivial business from that year. The Qing bureaucracy was really kind of amazing.
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