Manchu

Author : Robert Elegant
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504042260

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New York Times Bestseller: This epic novel of the conquest of the Ming dynasty “does for 17th-century China what James Clavell’s Shogun did for 16th-century Japan” (The Christian Science Monitor). Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in building and operating artillery. Little does he know that when he joins a Portuguese expedition to aid the decadent and corrupt Ming dynasty in its fight against the Manchu invaders, he is embarking on a journey that will merge his destiny with the fate of China itself. From the opulent courts of the emperors to bloody battlefields, author Robert Elegant employs his deep knowledge and love of China to create a richly detailed world of dangers and delights, where the quest for power and pleasure drives men and women to extremes of both loyalty and betrayal. Manchu is the compellingly vivid story of an empire in its last agonies and the people caught up in its fateful drama by the Edgar Award–winning author of Mandarin and Dynasty.

Author : Edward J. M. Rhoads
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295997483

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Manchus and Han by Edward J. M. Rhoads Pdf

China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China�s Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and complicated question in Manchus and Han, analyzing the evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste (the �banner people�) to a distinct ethnic group and then detailing the interplay and dialogue between the Manchu court and Han reformers that culminated in the dramatic changes of the early 20th century. Until now, many scholars have assumed that the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. But Rhoads demonstrates that in many ways Manchus remained an alien, privileged, and distinct group. Manchus and Han is a pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Likewise, it will clarify for ethnologists the unique origin of the Manchus as an occupational caste and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, sponsored by The China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Author : Gertraude Roth Li
Publisher : Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780980045956

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Manchu by Gertraude Roth Li Pdf

This resource offers students a tool to gain a good grounding in the Manchu language. With this text--the equivalent of a three-semester course--students are able study Manchu on their own time and at their own speed.

Author : Mark C. Elliott
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804746842

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The Manchu Way by Mark C. Elliott Pdf

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, This book supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation.

Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0631235914

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The Manchus by Pamela Kyle Crossley Pdf

This book relates the history of the Manchus, the rise and fall of their vast empire and their legacy today.

Author : Na Man’gap
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231552233

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The Diary of 1636 by Na Man’gap Pdf

Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack. Partly composed as a narrative of quotidian events during the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Na describes military campaigns along the northern and western regions of the country, the capture of the royal family, and the Manchu treatment of prisoners, offering insights into debates about Confucian loyalty and the conduct of women that took place in the war’s aftermath. His work sheds light on such issues as Confucian statecraft, military decision making, and ethnic interpretations of identity in the seventeenth century. Translated from literary Chinese into English for the first time, the diary illuminates a traumatic moment for early modern Korean politics and society. George Kallander’s critical introduction and extensive annotations place The Diary of 1636 in its historical, political, and military context, highlighting the importance of this text for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian as well as Korean history.

Author : Phyllis Birnbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231152191

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Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy by Phyllis Birnbaum Pdf

Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This man raised Xianyu, now known as Kawashima Yoshiko, to restore the Manchus to their former glory. Her fearsome dedication to this cause ultimately got her killed. Yoshiko had a fiery personality and loved the limelight. She shocked Japanese society by dressing in men's clothes and rose to prominence as Commander Jin, touted in Japan's media as a new Joan of Arc. Boasting a short, handsome haircut and a genuine military uniform, Commander Jin was credited with many daring exploits, among them riding horseback as leader of her own army during the Japanese occupation of China. While trying to promote the Manchus, Yoshiko supported the puppet Manchu state established by the Japanese in 1932-one reason she was executed for treason after Japan's 1945 defeat. The truth of Yoshiko's life is still a source of contention between China and Japan: some believe she was exploited by powerful men, others claim she relished her role as political provocateur. China holds her responsible for unspeakable crimes, while Japan has forgiven her transgressions. This biography presents the richest and most accurate portrait to date of the controversial princess spy, recognizing her truly novel role in conflicts that transformed East Asia.

Author : Edward J. M. Rhoads
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0295980400

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Manchus and Han by Edward J. M. Rhoads Pdf

A pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Rhoads analyzes the unique evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste to a distinct ethnic group and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled.

Author : Sax Rohmer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667601106

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Fu Manchu's Bride by Sax Rohmer Pdf

A strange epidemic is sweeping the Riviera. In desperation the French authorities call upon Dr Petrie to find an answer. During this crisis, a mysterious siren on the beach captivates Alan Sterling. She tells him her name only—Fleurette—and flees. When Petrie’s lab cultures show up sleeping sickness and plague, they call in Sir Denis Nayland Smith. It is not long before their investigations lead them to Fleurette—and to Dr Fu Manchu...

Author : Stephen A. Wadley,Carsten Naeher
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Manchu literature
ISBN : 3447052260

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Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Manchu Studies: Studies in Manchu literature and history by Stephen A. Wadley,Carsten Naeher Pdf

Majority of the papers presented at the conference.

Author : Sax Rohmer
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857686824

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Fu-Manchu - The Wrath of Fu-Manchu and Other Stories by Sax Rohmer Pdf

This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by the late Sax Rohmer. The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr. Fu-Manchu – and, of course, his unremitting opponent, Sir Denis Nayland Smith. There are eight more stories in this book, no less characteristic of Sax Rohmer's art.

Author : William Rozyck
Publisher : Sinor Research Institute of Inner Asian Studies
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015032305511

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Mongol Elements in Manchu by William Rozyck Pdf

William Rozycki's Mongol Elements in Manchu is a masterful work on the subject of Manchu and Mongolian linguistics. It identifies, analyzes, and categorizes occurrences of Mongol loan words in Manchu written documents in order to better understand the relationship between these two languages. In all, it examines 1,381 individual word correspondences and places them into eight individual categories: recent loans from Mongol to Manchu, early loans from Mongol to Manchu/Jurchen, ancient loans from Mongol to Tungus, pre-loan correspondences, loans from Manchu to Mongol, problematic cases, loans from Chinese to Mongol and Manchu, and dismissible cases. Both the linguistic analysis and comprehensive lexicon provide by this book make it an indispensable source for anyone studying or interested in the relationship between the Mongol and Manchu languages.

Author : Elena Suet-Ying Chiu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170890

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Bannermen Tales (Zidishu) by Elena Suet-Ying Chiu Pdf

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)—a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their circulation and reception into the early twentieth century. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization. To go beyond readily available texts, author Elena Chiu engaged in intensive fieldwork and archival research, examining approximately four hundred hand-copied and printed zidishu texts housed in libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan. Guided by theories of minority literature, cultural studies, and intertextuality, Chiu explores both the Han and Manchu cultures in the Qing dynasty through bannermen tales, and argues that they exemplified elements of Manchu cultural hybridization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries while simultaneously attempting to validate and perpetuate the superiority of Manchu identity. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization.

Author : Marten Soderblom Saarela
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812252071

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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu by Marten Soderblom Saarela Pdf

A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its prominence and novelty attracted the interest of not only Chinese literati but also foreign scholars. Yet scholars in Europe and Japan, and occasionally even within China itself, were compelled to study the language without access to a native speaker. Jesuit missionaries in Beijing sent Chinese books on Manchu to Europe, where scholars struggled to represent it in an alphabet compatible with Western pedagogy and printing technology. In southern China, meanwhile, an isolated phonologist with access to Jesuit books relied on expositions of the Roman alphabet to make sense of the Manchu script. When Chinese textbooks and dictionaries of Manchu eventually reached Japan, scholars there used their knowledge of Dutch to understand Manchu. In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu, Mårten Söderblom Saarela focuses on outsiders both within and beyond the Qing empire who had little interaction with Manchu speakers but took an interest in the strange, new language of a rising world power. He shows how—through observation, inference, and reference to received ideas on language and writing—intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and explores the uses to which it was put for recording sounds and arranging words.

Author : John Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015032992755

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The Manchus by John Ross Pdf