R Kent GuyR. Kent Guy is professor of history emeritus at the University of Washington. He is the author of Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796 (Washington, 2010) and The Emperor's Four reasures: Scholars and the State in the Late Qianlong Period (Harvard, 1987); and coeditor of Limits of the Rule of Law in China (Washington, 1999). Read More Read Less