SOAS – Manchu Society and Culture: An Alternative History of China (1600-1997): Reading List

  • Paul A. Cohen, China unbound: Evolving perspectives on the Chinese past, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
  • Nicola Di Cosmo (intro., notes, transl. of Dzengšeo’s), The diary of a Manchu soldier in seventeenth-century China : “My service in the army”, London: Routledge, 2006.
  • Idem and Dalizhabu Bao, Manchu-Mongol relations on the eve of the Qing Conquest: a documentary history, Leiden: Brill, 2003.
  • Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan warriors: Three Manchu generations and the end of the Qing world, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • Idem, The Manchus, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1997.
    Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing history from the nation: Questioning narratives of modern China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Manchus and Imperialism: the Qing Dynasty 1644-1900,” ch.9 in The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Mark Elliott, “Manchu figurations of historical process in the early seventeenth century”, in: Lynn A. Struve (ed.), Time, temporality, and imperial transition: East Asia from Ming to Qing, Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies / University of
    Hawai’i Press, 2005.
  • Idem, The Manchu way: The eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
  • Johan Elverskog, Our great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism and the state in late imperial China, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
  • James Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793, Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
  • Franz Michael, The origin of Manchu rule in China: Frontier and bureaucracy as interacting forces in the Chinese Empire, New York: Octagon, (1942) 1972.
  • Susan Naquin & Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese society in the eighteenth century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
  • Robert B. Oxnam, Ruling from horseback: Manchu politics in the Oboi regency 1661- 1669, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Tatiana A. Pang and Giovanni Stary, New light on Manchu historiography and literature: The discovery of three documents in old Manchu script, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998.
  • Alessandra Pozzi, Juha Antero Janhunen and Michael Weiers (eds), Tumen jalafun jecen aku: Manchu studies in honour of Giovanni Stary, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006.
  • Edward J. M. Rhoads, Manchus & Han: Ethnic relations and political power in late Qing and early republican China, 1861-1928, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
  • Giovanni Stary et alii, On the tracks of Manchu culture, 1644-1994: 350 years after the conquest of Peking, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995.
  • Jonathan Unger (ed.), Using the past to serve the present: Historiography and politics in contemporary China, Armonk/N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
  • Frederick Wakeman, The great enterprise: the Manchu reconstruction of imperial order in seventeenth-century China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
  • Zarrow, Peter, “Historical Trauma: Anti-Manchuism and Memories of Atrocity in Late Qing China [Yangzhou shiri ji (Account of Ten Days in Yangzhou)],” History and Memory 16.2 (Autumn-Winter 2004), pp. 67-107.

 

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