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

"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.

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从满洲联蒙古，蒙古联西藏，到成吉思汗12，13世纪的亚欧大陆温带草原的大联盟，深刻解析tribal confederation对单元民族和文化的尊重。

粗读了一遍，我完全赞同石滨裕美子对这本书的批评。 首先，不要把蒙古人的观念变化都归结为清朝主动的导引，而没有充分考虑西藏的影响是本书的最大硬伤。或者说，清廷与蒙古诸部是在怎样的互动中给佛教找到了一个彼此都接受的生长空间。从这个角度看，作者没有真正解决问题。 我们只看到了对文本的翻译，而文本背后各方的角力过程，并没有被建构起来。 其次，作者把ulus/törö当作理解17世纪满蒙关系的切入点，也让人感到费解。至少在清初的蒙古文书中，真正并列出现的术语是törö/šaǰin，而与此相关的是作者宣称要超越的qoyar yosu模式（这里定义混乱）。 最后，我同意清朝reunified and created the mongols的观点，但这只是个结论，是需要论证的。现在欠缺的就是论证这个过程。

论如何让蒙古臣服于大清，如何让蒙古人认同自己的蒙古身份，册封和黄教是两大法宝。不是很习惯作者的Buddhist Qing的表述。

有很强为了已经预设好答案的提问而强努着的感觉，虽然材料本身确实难找吧

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.