In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia’s mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history’s great conundrums: How did a barely literate alien people manage to remain in power for nearly 300 years over a highly cultured population that was vastly superior in number? This problem has fascinated scholars for almost a century, but until now no one has approached the question from the Manchu point of view.
This book, the first in any language to be based mainly on Manchu documents, supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation. Drawing on recent critical notions of ethnicity, the author explores the evolution of the “Eight Banners,” a unique Manchu system of social and military organization that was instrumental in the conquest of the Ming.
The author argues that as rulers of China the Manchu conquerors had to behave like Confucian monarchs, but that as a non-Han minority they faced other, more complex considerations as well. Their power derived not only from the acceptance of orthodox Chinese notions of legitimacy, but also, the author suggests, from Manchu “ethnic sovereignty,” which depended on the sustained coherence of the conquerors.
When, in the early 1700s, this coherence was threatened by rapid acculturation and the prospective loss of Manchu distinctiveness, the Qing court, always insecure, desperately urged its minions to uphold the traditions of an idealized “Manchu Way.” However, the author shows that it was not this appeal but rather the articulation of a broader identity grounded in the realities of Eight Banner life that succeeded in preserving Manchu ethnicity, and the Qing dynasty along with it, into the twentieth century.
發表於2024-11-21
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滿族在中國曆史上扮演著一個重要的角色。滿洲統治者在整個清王朝一直處於政治支配者地位。關於滿族史的比較傳統的一類看法, 往往將滿族形成的時間定位於1644 年清軍入關之前。有人把努爾哈赤稱汗建國, 或滿文的創製看作是滿族形成的重要標誌; 也有學者認為, 滿族共同體的最終形...
評分1所讀第二本新清史著作 2與“漢化觀(Sinicization)”不同,強調清帝國的滿洲性(Manchuness)。反駁學界主流的滿人漢化說,認為滿清一朝,滿清利用八旗製度維係滿人族群認同,而且也卓有成效。八旗兵的腐化墮落是事實,滿語的衰退也是事實。但民族構建是有多種維度,從其他方麵,...
評分滿族在中國曆史上扮演著一個重要的角色。滿洲統治者在整個清王朝一直處於政治支配者地位。關於滿族史的比較傳統的一類看法, 往往將滿族形成的時間定位於1644 年清軍入關之前。有人把努爾哈赤稱汗建國, 或滿文的創製看作是滿族形成的重要標誌; 也有學者認為, 滿族共同體的最終形...
評分作者:孫衛國,南開大學曆史學院教授、博士生導師 ✫來源:《中國社會曆史評論》第七捲(2006),第399-410頁 從二十世紀四、五十年代開始,廣義的清史一直是西方研究的重點,費正清創立的“刺激-反應論”,解讀清代後期近代中國的曆史,産生瞭廣泛影響。盡管現在這種觀點已...
評分As Mirror pays special attention to the Manchu identity as one of many ethnic group, The Manchu Way specially makes it its sole focus. Although both arguing against the “sinicization” theory, Elliott places more emphasis upon “Manchuness” than upon “em...
圖書標籤: 新清史 海外中國研究 清史 曆史 滿族 歐立德 明清史 滿洲
我怎麼覺得作者老在扯淡不好好兒說話啊 學術腔太重瞭也
評分總體感覺歐立德此書不如濮德培的China Marches West,核心觀點不夠凸顯,按我的理解就是:一個國傢、族群的民族主義或種族觀念,對正統或血脈的強調,往往是在其遇到內外危機的時候纔變得明顯,而在其如日中天的時候,反而是比較的淡薄。
評分讀這麼裝逼的書,不在豆瓣記一筆簡直沒天理。
評分introduction and conclusion
評分總體感覺歐立德此書不如濮德培的China Marches West,核心觀點不夠凸顯,按我的理解就是:一個國傢、族群的民族主義或種族觀念,對正統或血脈的強調,往往是在其遇到內外危機的時候纔變得明顯,而在其如日中天的時候,反而是比較的淡薄。
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