Beatrice Bartlett
Beatrice Sturgis Bartlett or Betsy Bartlett (1928-2024) was an American historian of modern Chinese history, from the 1600s to the present. She was Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University.[1]
Biography
[edit]Bartlett received her B.A. from Smith College and Ph.D. (1980) from Yale University. She is best known for her work on Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723-1820 (1991), a significant expansion of her PhD dissertation,[2] which has been described as the "best contribution to Ch'ing institutional history in any language."[3] After teaching at Yale for a number of years, Bartlett retired in 2005 as a full professor, and became Professor Emerita of History.[4][5]
Bartlett comes from a long line of Yale alumni, including being related to the first Chinese to graduate from a North American university, the Yale alumnus Yung Wing.[4]
Selected works
[edit]- Monarchs and ministers : the Grand Council in Mid-Chʻing China, 1723-1820, 1991
- Ch'ing documents in the National Palace Museum Archives by Beatrice S Bartlett, 1974
- Jun zhu yu da chen : Qing zhong qi de jun ji chu (1723-1820), 2017
- The secret memorials of the Yung-Cheng period (1723-1735) : archival and published versions, 1974
- The vermilion brush : the Grand Council communications system and central government decision making in mid Chʻing China, 1980
- Archive materials in China on United States history, 1985
- Imperial notations on Chʻing official documents in the Chʻien-Lung (1736-1795) and Chia-Chʻing (1796-1820) reigns, 1972
References
[edit]- ^ Laurans, Penelope. "Bartlett, among the first U.S. scholars to study in the Qing archives".
- ^ Bartlett, Beatrice S. (1991). Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Chʻing China, 1723-1820. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06591-8.
- ^ Ho, Ping-Ti (1998). "In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski's "Reenvisioning the Qing"". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (1): 126. doi:10.2307/2659026. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 2659026.
- ^ a b Laurans, Penelope. "Beatrice Bartlett". Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Beatrice Bartlett". Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty. Retrieved 18 May 2021.