The Manchus
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The Manchus
（The Peoples of Asia / general editor, Morris Rossabi）
Blackwell, 1997
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Bibliography: p. [220]-232
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For centuries the Manchurian peoples inhabited a cultural and economic world that made them sometimes enemies, sometimes allies, of neighboring Chinese, Koreans, Mongols, and Russians. Between 1636 and 1700 this picture changed dramatically. The Manchus united and conquered the whole of China and Mongolia. A century later they added Tibet and Eastern Turkistan, creating one of the largest land empires in history. How they achieved this, and what the consequences were to themselves and to their subjects, are the main themes of this book. The final chapters reveal the roles the West and Japan played in undermining Qing authority in the nineteenth century and the sporadic attempts to restore it in the twentieth. Lastly, the book considers the fate of the contemporary Manchu minority in China and examines new signs of its resurgent identity.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. The Paradox of the 'Manchus'. 2. Shamans and Skis: Origins of the Manchus. 3. Fiction and Fact in the Life of Nurgachi. 4. The Conquest State. 5. The Gilded Age. 6. Revenge of the Lilliputians. 7. Epilogue: Manchus in the Twentieth Century. Appendix I: Rulers of the Nurgachi, Later Jin and Qing Periods. Appendix II: Cherished Troops. Appendix III: Glossary of Names and Terms. Index.
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