Index Locators in italic refer to charts, maps, tables, and figures. Thus 11map 1b refers to map 1b on page 11. accounting systems see four-column and the zouxiao process 117 balancing system (sizhu jiesuan 四柱結算; see also Three Vaults of the Board of aka four-pillar accounting system); kupiao Revenue (Hubu sanku 户部三庫) (requisition tickets); zouxiao system Board of Rites (Libu 禮部) Aisin Gioro family location of 10map 1a and the imperial guard 81-82 and the reception and consumption of and the Imperial Household Depart- medical materials 257, 267 ment 29, 75 sacrificial vessels produced in porcelain and the military organization of the banner approved by 138 system 76-77, 76n8 Board of Work (Gongbu 工部) 10map 1a Aksu 阿克蘇 (Xinjiang) 13map 3 collaboration with the Imperial Household and the sandalwood Buddha statue 180, Department 31, 51, 228 180n72 and the kilns at Jingdezhen 145 and the southern route through reconfigured as the Ministry of Agriculture, Xinjiang 196 Work, and Commerce (Nong-gong- Archives of the Imperial Workshops of the shang bu 農工商部) 250 Imperial Household Department bondservants and annual ledgers 104, 120 career advancement of 74-75, 80-81 and facsimile reproductions of kupiao 95 defined as servants registered in banner zouxiao process reflected in documents companies (Chinese, zuoling; Manchu, in 117 niru) 49, 74 assemblage see interpenetration of the lineages of 75-76 private (court) and public (state) spheres; numbers in the service of the palace-as-machine – as shifting material emperor 49 and social assemblage sinjeku or bondservants’ slaves (Chinese: xinzheku) 50-51 bannermen specialist skills acquired by 75-76, 81-84, career paths as scribes (bitieshi) and 86-90 imperial guards (shiwei) 78-83 and the transmission of technical Gao-pu corruption case 189-192 skills through collaborative increased population during Daoguang’s mentorship 84-85 reign 90 see also Wanyan 完顏 (Manchu: palace maids affiliated with 50, 56, 71 Wanggiyan) preferential treatment of 57n8 Bullion Vault (Yinku 銀庫) of the Board of shifting configurations of bannerman Revenue see Three Vaults of the Board of experts’ skills 75-76, 81-84, 87-92 Revenue (Hubu sanku 户部三庫) and the transmission of technical skills Bullion Vault of the Imperial Household through collaborative mentorship 84-85 Department (Neiwufu yinku 內務府銀庫) see also Cao Yin; Gao Bin; Jin Jiang; Laoge; and expenses related to the Sixth Panchen Nian Xiyao; Tang Ying; Wanyan Lama’s visit to Rehe 165-166 banner organization see Manchu banner and fines of ‘indulgence gold’ (shuzui jin 贖 system 罪金) 162-163 Beijing 北京 12map 2; see also Westpark location of 37map1b (Xiyuan 西苑); Xuanwu Gate (Xuanwumen and the melting down of objects to reuse 宣武門) their metal 165-166 Beijing Zoo (Beijing Dongwuyuan 北京動物 and tribute gold 163, 163nn15-16 園) 250, 287-288 — Bullion Vault (Yinku 銀庫) of the Grand Bennett, Jane 24 Storage Office (Guangchusi 廣儲司) Board of Revenue (Hubu 户部) of gold held by the Imperial Household location in the Forbidden City of 10map 1a Department in 158, 165, 166chart 5.1 324 MAKING THE PALACE MACHINE WORK monthly reports (or sizhu jiesuan 四柱 commodified labour 結算) used by 158-159, 162, 163-164, and the Global Collaboratory’s 166chart 5.1 taxonomy 54 bureaucracy and gong 工 (work units) 110-112, 111n40, and family organization at the court see 128 hereditary status and the palace regulations from the the Imperial Household Department as a Guangxu era 58 mirror image of the bureaucracy of the and tributary labour 57 public state 27, 117-123 Court of Control and Punishment (Shenxingsi) tribute campaigns as periodic tests of 279 慎刑司 see also Board of Revenue (Hubu); Board of Board of Law compared with 232 Rites (Libu); Board of Work (Gongbu); location of 10map 1a Garden Bureau (Fengchenyuan); Current Regulations and Precedents from the interpenetration of the private (court) Imperial Household Department see Cur- and public (state) spheres; kupiao 庫 rent Regulations and Precedents (xianxing 票 (requisition tickets); zouxiao 奏銷 zeli 現行則例) system Current Regulations and Precedents (xianxing Bureau of Eunuchs (Jingshifang 敬事房) 59, 62 zeli 現行則例) Bureau of Imperial Gardens and Parks see accounting of labour calculated in Garden Bureau (Fengchenyuan) temporal ‘work’ units (gong) 110-112, Bureau of Weaving and Dyeing (Zhiranju 織染 111n40, 128 局), and reforms imposed on the Imperial compilation of 58-59 Workshops’ accounting system 103 edict on reforms to take place in the Imperial Workshops’ accounting Cao Yin 曹寅 81-82, 91 system 103 Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 Dream of the Red Chamber Imperial Household Department’s (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) 249-250 regulations distinguished from court classification regulations 59 ‘Five coloured’ patterns (wucai wenyang 五 issuance by individual construction 彩紋樣) of porcelain ritual vessels 142 offices to detail the flow of materials, and the Global Collaboratory’s labour resources, and their monetary taxonomy 54 equivalents 159-160 of field types for taxation 234 limitations of its documentation 74 of goods as an exercise in defining social and the maintenance reports of the palace and political value 219-223 machine 86-88 of kupiao 100-101 and porcelain production cost 88 and the management of imperial and and quantifying palace personnel 47-52, colonial expansion 217-219 49t1.1, 51-52, 56 Clunas, Craig 249 and standardization regulating the status Collected Statues of the Great Ming (Da Ming quo and project management 80 huidian 大明會典) on porcelain replace- on tributary and commodified ments of ritual bronzes 138, 141-142 labour 58-62 Collected Statues of the Great Qing (Da Qing and women employed in the palace 56, huidian 大清會典) 39 62, 66 commerce and the commercial market and fur 220-221 Der Ling (Yu De Ling 裕德齡, Cixi’s Lady-in and the imperial lotus business 226-228, Waiting) 73 233-235, 236-237, 238-244, 238t7.2, on Empress Dowager Cixi and the Russian 250; see also Westpark (Xiyuan 西 circus 284 苑) – lotuses everyday life in the palace described and the interpenetration of the private by 64-65, 69-70 (court) and public (state) spheres 31- family background of 57n28, 65, 70 32, 292 on monetary renumeration of and medical substances 257-261 eunuchs 61n41 salt production and administration 31, 76, photo of Empress Dowager Cixi and her 117, 162, 210 entourage on Middle Lake 244, 245f7.5 see also four-column balancing system on punishment of palace maids and (sizhu jiesuan 四柱結算; aka four-pillar eunuchs 63n48 accounting system) on sons of Manchu officials 56-57n28 I NDEX 325 Ding Guangpeng 丁觀鵬, ‘Realm of Ultimate monetary renumeration of 61-62, 61n41 Bliss’ (Jile shijie tu 极樂世界圖) 129-134 and punishments 62-63, 63n48, 66 and Empress Dowager Chongqing’s 70th and sickness and disability 62-63 birthday celebration 132 experts see specialized skill Kesi tapestry of 133fII.1 Dzungaria 13map 3 Forbidden City (Zijincheng 紫禁城) 10map 1a, 11map 1b ecological concerns eunuchs working in palaces of 51n15 and the cycle of porcelain supervisor Tang expulsion of the imperial clan from 64 Ying’s work 91 four-column balancing system (sizhu jiesuan and ‘extracting the maximum use from 四柱結算; aka four-pillar accounting a material’ (wu jin qi yong 物尽其 system) 33, 118-120 用) 262 budgetary disbursement ledgers 104 and lotus cultivation 215 budgetary ledgers of gold and silver 101- and Wanyan Linqing’s flood reduction 104, 102f3.2, 158-159 efforts 92 and the Bullion Vault of the Imperial and Xinjiang officials’ management of jade Household Department 158-159, 162, delivery 190, 197, 202, 204, 206, 208-210 163n15-16, 163-165, 166chart 5.1 Eight Banner system see Manchu banner and the ‘Inventory Register of the Imperial system Workshops of the Yangxin Palace’ 168- elephants 169, 170chart 5.2 Elephant Training Office (Xunxiangsuo 馴 as a microcosm of the fiscal state 292 象所) 12map 2, 28, 282 and the registers of the Three Vaults of the and Empress Dowager Cixi 284 Board of Revenue 118-122 the Imperial Elephant Stables (Xiangfang Fuliang County 浮梁縣 象房 near Xuanwu Gate 宣武 ceramic production centre in see Imperial 門) 12map 2, 273-274, 280-285 Ceramic Manufactory (Yuyaochang 御 tribute elephants 215, 277-280 窯廠) and Western commercial performances and Porcelain Bureau (Fuliang ciju 浮梁瓷 exhibitions 285, 286, 287f9.2a-b 局) 13map 3, 144-145 Elias, Norbert 52, 61 Elliott, Mark C. 27n8, 57n8 Gansu Empress Dowager Chongqing 崇慶皇太后 gold production in 163-164 celebration of the 70th birthday of 130-131, ‘tribute gold’ from 163 132 Gao Bin, 高斌 82, 87, 91 Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后 Garden Bureau (Fengchenyuan 奉宸苑) and the Agricultural Experiment as one of the ‘Three Bureaus’ (三院 Field 250, 287-290 Sanyuan) of the Imperial Household and elephants 284 Department 28, 227, 232 official duties of 55 straw for elephants from imperial fields photo of her with her entourage on Middle managed by 281 Lake 244, 245f7.5 George, Kenneth M. 219n4 renovation of the Ningshou Palace gong 貢 see tribute in preparation for 60th birthday gong 工 (work units) 110-112, 111n40, 128 celebrations 43-45 Grand Council (Junjichu 軍機處) and the eunuchs (taijian 太監) connotation of secrecy or concealment of ji Bureau of Eunuchs (Jingshifang 敬事 機 39n1 房) 59, 62 Grand Storage Office (Guangchusi 廣儲司) 82 commodified and indentured labour and the financial administration of the of 57-58, 71-72 Imperial Workshops 98, 101 and the demise of the Qing 67-68 and the functioning of the palace and the Eight Banner system 57, machine 28 57-58n31 see also Bullion Vault (Yinku 銀庫) of the and the imperial kilns during the Grand Storage Office (Guangchusi 廣 Ming