A Translucent Mirror

by Crossley, Pamela Kyle

• ISBN13: 9780520234246
• ISBN10: 0520234243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A careful reconstruction of the emergence of Manchu identity that will compel a complete revision of the Western understanding of Chinese conceptions of emperorship and nationhood in both the late imperial and modern eras.

Author Biography

Pamela Kyle Crossley is Rosenwald Research Professor of History, Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Ideology, Rulership, and History	p. 9
Conquest and the Blessing of the Past	p. 29
Imperial Universalism and Circumscription of Identity	p. 36
The Great Wall	p. 53
Trial by Identity	p. 57
A Discourse on Ancestry	p. 58
Political Names in Nurgan	p. 74
The Liaodongese	p. 84
The Character of Loyalty	p. 89
The Early Nikan Spectrum	p. 90
Conquest and Distinctions	p. 99
Personifications of Fidelity	p. 116
The Father's House	p. 129
Boundaries of Rule	p. 135
Origins of the Khanship	p. 138
The Collegial Impulse	p. 157
The Reinvention of Treason	p. 167
Empire and Identity	p. 177
Subjugation and Equality	p. 178
Generating Imperial Authority	p. 185
Authenticity	p. 192
Surpassing Limits	p. 205
The Celestial Pillar	p. 217
The Wheel-Turning King	p. 223
The Center	p. 224
Debating the Past	p. 246
The Power of Speech	p. 262
The Universal Prospect	p. 281
The Banner Elites	p. 285
Shady Pasts	p. 290
Manchuness	p. 296
Following Chinggis	p. 311
The Empty Constituency	p. 327
Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire	p. 337
Bibliography	p. 363
Abbreviations	p. 389
Index	p. 391
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