Beatrice Bartlett Explained

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

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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bartlett, among the first U.S. scholars to study in the Qing archives . Laurans . Penelope.
2. Book: Bartlett . Beatrice S. . Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Chʻing China, 1723-1820 . 1991 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-06591-8 . en.
3. Ho . Ping-Ti . In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski's "Reenvisioning the Qing" . The Journal of Asian Studies . 1998 . 57 . 1 . 126 . 10.2307/2659026 . 2659026 . 0021-9118.
4. Web site: Laurans . Penelope . Beatrice Bartlett . Faculty of Arts and Sciences . 18 May 2021.
5. Web site: Beatrice Bartlett . Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty . 18 May 2021.