A Translucent Mirror

by Crossley, Pamela Kyle

• ISBN13: 9780520215665
• ISBN10: 0520215664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• 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	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(52)
Ideology, Rulership, and History	9	(20)
Conquest and the Blessing of the Past	29	(7)
Imperial Universalism and Circumscription of Identity	36	(17)
PART I THE GREAT WALL	53	(76)
Trial by Identity	57	(32)
A Discourse on Ancestry	58	(16)
Political Names in Nurgan	74	(10)
The Liaodongese	84	(5)
The Character of Loyalty	89	(40)
The Early Nikan Spectrum	90	(9)
Conquest and Distinctions	99	(17)
Personifications of Fidelity	116	(13)
PART II THE FATHER'S HOUSE	129	(88)
Boundaries of Rule	135	(42)
Origins of the Khanship	138	(19)
The Collegial Impulse	157	(10)
The Reinvention of Treason	167	(10)
Empire and Identity	177	(40)
Subjugation and Equality	178	(7)
Generating Imperial Authority	185	(7)
Authenticity	192	(13)
Surpassing Limits	205	(12)
PART III THE CELESTIAL PILLAR	217	(146)
The Wheel-Turning King	223	(58)
The Center	224	(22)
Debating the Past	246	(16)
The Power of Speech	262	(19)
The Universal Prospect	281	(82)
The Banner Elites	285	(5)
Shady Pasts	290	(6)
Manchuness	296	(15)
Following Chinggis	311	(16)
The Empty Constituency	327	(36)
Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire	337	(26)
Bibliography	363	(26)
Abbreviations	389	(2)
Index	391