Our Great Qing

Johan Elverskog is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University.

出版者:University of Hawaii Press

作者:Johan Elverskog

页数:272

出版时间:2006-7

价格:USD 52.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780824830212

图书标签:新清史蒙古清史海外中国研究历史佛教宗教英文

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"In a sweeping overview of four centuries of Mongolian history that draws on previously untapped sources, Johan Elverskog opens up totally new perspectives on some of the most urgent questions historians have recently raised about the role of Buddhism in the constitution of the Qing empire. Theoretically informed and strongly comparative in approach, Elverskog’s work tells a fascinating and important story that will interest all scholars working at the intersection of religion and politics." —Mark Elliott, Harvard University

"Johan Elverskog has rewritten the political and intellectual history of Mongolia from the bottom up, telling a convincing story that clarifies for the first time the revolutions which Mongolian concepts of community, rule, and religion underwent from 1500 to 1900. His account of Qing rule in Mongolia doesn’t just tell us what images the Qing emperors wished to project, but also what images the Mongols accepted themselves, and how these changed over the centuries. In the scope of time it covers, the originality of the views advanced, and the accuracy of the scholarship upon which it is based, Our Great Qing seems destined to mark a watershed in Mongolian studies. It will be essential reading for specialists in Mongolian studies and will make an important contribution and riposte to the ‘new Qing history’ now changing the face of late imperial Chinese history. Specialists in Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhism’s interaction with the political realm will also find in this work challenging and thought-provoking." —ChristopherAtwood, Indiana University

Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In contrast to other accounts of Manchu rule, Our Great Qing focuses not only on what images the metropole wished to project into Mongolia, but also on what images the Mongols acknowledged themselves. Rather than accepting the Manchu’s use of Buddhism, Johan Elverskog begins by questioning the static, unhistorical, and hegemonic view of political life implicit in the Buddhist explanation. By stressing instead the fluidity of identity and Buddhist practice as processes continually developing in relation to state formations, this work explores how Qing policies were understood by Mongols and how they came to see themselves as Qing subjects.

In his investigation of Mongol society on the eve of the Manchu conquest, Elverskog reveals the distinctive political theory of decentralization that fostered the civil war among the Mongols. He explains how it was that the Manchu Great Enterprise was not to win over "Mongolia" but was instead to create a unified Mongol community of which the disparate preexisting communities would merely be component parts.

A key element fostering this change was the Qing court’s promotion of Gelukpa orthodoxy, which not only transformed Mongol historical narratives and rituals but also displaced the earlier vernacular Mongolian Buddhism. Finally, Elverskog demonstrates how this eighteenth-century conception of a Mongol community, ruled by an aristocracy and nourished by a Buddhist emperor, gave way to a pan-Qing solidarity of all Buddhist peoples against Muslims and Christians and to local identities that united for the first time aristocrats with commoners in a new Mongol Buddhist identity on the eve of the twentieth century.

用户评价

读了一半读不下去了，research question非常有趣：从归清的各个蒙古部族角度来解释他们是如何identify自己以及如何理解自己as part of qing的，作者自己也是说这本书的角度与以往单方面以乾隆亲达赖来解释各部归顺是不一样的。但真开始写了就没啥意思了。

A good book that uses a lot of Mongolian materials, the problem being it almost only uses Mongolian materials without regarding to specific political-socio-economic-demographic aspects. It is very good textual interpretation indeed, but good interpretation might be bad explanation, and vice versa.

先通过ulus/toro system分析蒙古部落关系。然后论述清朝统治者用藏传佛教打破蒙古族内部的部落分立局面，形成一个统一的属于清朝的“蒙古族”。19世纪的relocalization是之前没有想到的。

读了一半读不下去了，research question非常有趣：从归清的各个蒙古部族角度来解释他们是如何identify自己以及如何理解自己as part of qing的，作者自己也是说这本书的角度与以往单方面以乾隆亲达赖来解释各部归顺是不一样的。但真开始写了就没啥意思了。

先通过ulus/toro system分析蒙古部落关系。然后论述清朝统治者用藏传佛教打破蒙古族内部的部落分立局面，形成一个统一的属于清朝的“蒙古族”。19世纪的relocalization是之前没有想到的。