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Author_Pamela Kyle Crossley
Beijing
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China
China proper
Chinese culture
Chinese name
Confucianism
Eight Banners
Empress Dowager Cixi
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Governor-general
Guan Yu
Guangxu Emperor
Hangzhou
Heilongjiang
Heshen
Hong Taiji
Household
Hulun (alliance)
Imperial Household Department
Irgen Gioro
Jiangsu
Juan
Jurchen people
Kang Youwei
Kangxi Emperor
Khanate
Lao She
Manchu language
Manchu people
Manchukuo
Manchuria
Military service
Ming dynasty
Mongols
Niohuru
Nurhaci
Puyi
Qianlong Emperor
Qing dynasty
Ronglu
Salary
Shaanxi
Shamanism
Shanhai Pass
Shenyang
Shunzhi Emperor
Sichuan
Sinicization
Suiyuan
Surname
Tael
Taiping Rebellion
Tax
The Empress Dowager
The Other Hand
Warfare
Writing
Xi'an
Xinjiang
Yongzheng Emperor
Yu Yue
Yuan Shikai
Yue Fei
Zhang Binglin
Zhang Zuolin
Zhao Erxun
Zhapu
Zhejiang
Zhoushan
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008776
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the descendants of these conquering people were coming to terms with a loss of legal definition, an ever-steeper decline in living standards, and a sense of abandonment by the Qing court. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), Orphan Warriors is the first attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. The book reveals that the Manchus were not "sinicized," but that they were growing in consciousness of their separate ethnicity in response to changes in their own position and in Chinese attitudes toward them. Pamela Kyle Crossley's treatment of the Suwan Guwalgiya family of Hangzhou is hinged upon Jinliang (1878-1962), who was viewed at various times as a progressive reformer, a promising scholar, a bureaucratic hack, a traitor, and a relic.
The author sees reflected in the ambiguities of his persona much of the plight of other Manchus as they were transformed from a conquering caste to an ethnic minority. Throughout Crossley explores the relationships between cultural decline and cultural survival, polity and identity, ethnicity and the disintegration of empires, all of which frame much of our understanding of the origins of the modern world.
