The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674013999 ISBN 13 : 9780674013995

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2004

Synopsis

For many years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been grouped as "late imperial China," a temporal framework that allows scholars to identify and evaluate indigenous patterns of social, economic, and cultural change initiated in the last century of Ming rule that imparted a particular character to state and society throughout the Qing and into the twentieth century. This paradigm asserts the autonomous character of social change in China and has allowed historians to create a "China-centred history." Recently, however, many scholars have begun emphasising the singular qualities of the Qing. Among the contributors to this volume on the formation of the Qing, those who emphasise the Manchu ethos of the Qing tend to see it as part of an early modernity and stress parallel and sometimes mutually reinforcing patterns of political consolidation and cultural integration across Eurasia. Other contributors who examine the Qing formation from the perspective of those who lived through the dynastic transition see the advent of Qing rule as prompting attempts by the Chinese subjects of the new empire to make sense of what they perceived as a historical disjuncture and to rework these understandings into an accommodation to foreign rule. In contrast to the late imperial paradigm, the new ways of configuring the Qing in historical time in both groups of essays assert the singular qualities of the Qing formation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674013999
• ISBN 13: 9780674013995
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Éditeur: Struve L.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible