The Manchus

by Crossley, Pamela Kyle

• ISBN13: 9780631235910
• ISBN10: 0631235914
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book relates the history of the Manchus, the rise and fall of their vast empire and their legacy today.

Author Biography

Pamela Kyle Crossley's most recent study, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (1999) was awarded the Levenson Prize by the Association for Asian Studies. She is a past fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and presently is Professor of History at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA).

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
List of Maps	xi
Preface	xiii
The Paradox of the Manchus	1	(13)
Ethnicity and Causation in the ``Manchu'' Dynasty	4	(4)
The Qing Empire as a Historical Idea	8	(2)
New Windows on Qing History	10	(4)
Shamans and ``Clans'': The Origins of the Manchus	14	(33)
Prelude to the Manchus	15	(9)
Distinctive Manchu Institutions	24	(9)
The Manchu Language and the Altaic Idea	33	(6)
The Ethnographer from Seoul: Sin Chung-il among the Jurchens	39	(8)
The Enigma of Nurgaci	47	(28)
The Myth of the Avenger	48	(5)
The Myth of Individual Supremacy	53	(12)
The Myth of the Great Enterprise	65	(6)
The Nurgaci State	71	(4)
The Qing Expansion	75	(34)
The Birth of the Empire	78	(3)
The Conquest Elite	81	(6)
Consolidation under the Kangxi Emperor	87	(8)
New Conquerors and Old: The Manchus and the Mongols	95	(6)
Titanic Competitors: The Qing and the Romanov Empires	101	(3)
World Trade and the Qing Court	104	(5)
The Gilded Age of Qianlong	109	(41)
The New Imperial Style	112	(5)
Tibet and Mongolia under Qing Dominion	117	(5)
The Formalization of the Manchu Heritage	122	(8)
Glory and Decay in the Universal Empire	130	(7)
The Fall of the Philosopher-King	137	(13)
The Lingering Death of the Empire	150	(39)
The Princes of Disorder	151	(3)
Opium and Foreign Privilege	154	(3)
The Taiping War and the End of the Qing Empire	157	(8)
Qing Territory and Hungry Empires	165	(4)
Illusions of Revival	169	(8)
The Pregnant Carcasses of the Eurasian Land Empires	177	(12)
Epilogue: The Manchus in the Twentieth Century	189	(13)
Appendix I Reign Periods of the Aisin Gioro Rulers	202	(1)
Appendix II Cherished Soldiers	203	(3)
Appendix III A Glossary of Names and Terms	206	(10)
Notes	216	(4)
Bibligraphy	220	(13)
Index	233