A translucent mirror : history and identity in Qing imperial ideology /
In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a distinctive style of emperorshi...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1999
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I Great Wall
- 1. Trial by Identity
- 2. Character of Loyalty
- Pt. II. Father's House
- 3. Boundaries of Rule
- 4. Empire and Identity
- Pt. III. Celestial Pillar
- 5. Wheel-Turning King
- 6. Universal Prospect. Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire.
- Pt. I The Great Wall. 1. Trial by Identity. 2. The Character of Loyalty
- Pt. II. The Father's House. 3. Boundaries of Rule. 4. Empire and Identity
- Pt. III. The Celestial Pillar. 5. The Wheel-Turning King. 6. The Universal Prospect. Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire.
- Ideology, Rulership, and History
- Conquest and the Blessing of the Past
- Imperial Universalism and Circumscription of Identity
- The Great Wall
- Trial by Identity
- A Discourse on Ancestry
- Political Names in Nurgan
- The Liaodongese
- The Character of Loyalty
- The Early Nikan Spectrum
- Conquest and Distinctions
- Personifications of Fidelity
- The Father's House
- Boundaries of Rule
- Origins of the Khanship
- The Collegial Impulse
- The Reinvention of Treason
- Empire and Identity
- Subjugation and Equality
- Generating Imperial Authority
- Authenticity
- Surpassing Limits
- The Celestial Pillar
- The Wheel-Turning King
- The Center
- Debating the Past
- The Power of Speech
- The Universal Prospect
- The Banner Elites
- Shady Pasts
- Manchuness
- Following Chinggis
- The Empty Constituency
- Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire
- Ideology, Rulership, and History 9
- Conquest and the Blessing of the Past 29
- Imperial Universalism and Circumscription of Identity 36
- Part I The Great Wall 53
- 1 Trial by Identity 57
- A Discourse on Ancestry 58
- Political Names in Nurgan 74
- The Liaodongese 84
- 2 The Character of Loyalty 89
- The Early Nikan Spectrum 90
- Conquest and Distinctions 99
- Personifications of Fidelity 116
- Part II The Father's House 129
- 3 Boundaries of Rule 135
- Origins of the Khanship 138
- The Collegial Impulse 157
- The Reinvention of Treason 167
- 4 Empire and Identity 177
- Subjugation and Equality 178
- Generating Imperial Authority 185
- Authenticity 192
- Surpassing Limits 205
- Part III The Celestial Pillar 217
- 5 The Wheel-Turning King 223
- The Center 224
- Debating the Past 246
- The Power of Speech 262
- 6 The Universal Prospect 281
- The Banner Elites 285
- Shady Pasts 290
- Manchuness 296
- Following Chinggis 311
- The Empty Constituency 327
- Postscript: Race and Revolution at the End of the Empire 337