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
发表于2025-01-26
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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.
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評分profound...
評分探索新的研究路徑的意義更大,關於八旗製運作的很多細節仍有待研究。
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intro chap 3 conclu
1所读第二本新清史著作 2与“汉化观(Sinicization)”不同,强调清帝国的满洲性(Manchuness)。反驳学界主流的满人汉化说,认为满清一朝,满清利用八旗制度维系满人族群认同,而且也卓有成效。八旗兵的腐化堕落是事实,满语的衰退也是事实。但民族构建是有多种维度,从其他方面,...
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...
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...
評分欧立德这部新清史的力作运用族群理论分析清朝满洲的民族性,与新清史研究多数探讨晚清不同,本书详细梳理了从清朝开国到乾隆朝的女真/满洲的民族性问题,并对以往清史研究中汉化论的主流观点进行反思,提出八旗制度在维护满洲民族和造成满汉区隔的重要作用。新清史的满...
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...
The Manchu Way pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025