Time, Temporality, and Imperial Transition : East Asia from Ming to Qing

by Struve, Lynn A.

• ISBN13: 9780824828271
• ISBN10: 0824828275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

¿[The essays in this volume] draw on a wealth of primary and secondary writings in an extraordinary array of languages, offering an utterly original feast of ideas both as a guide to better understanding the era under study and for future scholarship.¿ ¿Joshua Fogel, from the Series Editor¿s Preface Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires¿the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time¿are especially significant. This important and intriguing volume is an investigation of precisely such temporal effects, focusing on the northern and eastern regions of the Asian subcontinent in the seventeenth century, when the polity at the core of East Asian civilization, Ming dynasty China, collapsed and was replaced by the Manchu-ruled Qing dynasty.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Maps	1	(2)
Introduction
LYNN A. STRUVE	3	(28)
PART I. Manchu and Han Historical Consciousness in Flux
CHAPTER ONE Whose Empire Shall It Be? Manchu Figurations of Historical Process in the Early Seventeenth Century
MARK C. ELLIOTT	31	(42)
CHAPTER TWO Toward Another Tang or Zhou? Views from the Central Plain in the Shunzhi Reign
ROGER DES FORGES	73	(42)
PART II. Temporalities of National Subjugation and Resistance
CHAPTER THREE Contesting Chinese Time, Nationalizing Temporal Space: Temporal Inscription in Late Choson Korea
JAHYUN KIM HABOUSH	115	(27)
CHAPTER FOUR Mongol Time Enters a Qing World
JOHAN ELVERSKOG	142	(39)
PART III. Alterities in Folk Culture and the Symbolics of Calendar Time
CHAPTER FIVE The "Teachings of the Lord of Heaven" in Fujian: Between Two Worlds and Two Times
EUGENIO MENEGON	181	(63)
CHAPTER SIX "Birthday of the Sun": Historical Memory in Southeastern Coastal China of the Chongzhen Emperor's Death
ZHAO SHIYU AND DU ZHENGZIIEN, TRANS. LYNN A. STRUVE	244	(33)
Han-Script Glossary	277	(12)
List of Contributors	289	(4)
Index	293