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Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World

by Crossley, Pamela Kyle | HC | Acceptable
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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780691055831
Subject Area
History
Publication Name
Orphan Warriors : Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Length
9.8 in
Subject
Asia / China
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Author
Pamela Kyle Crossley
Item Weight
23.9 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
328 Pages

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691055831
ISBN-13
9780691055831
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1011245

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Orphan Warriors : Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World
Publication Year
1990
Subject
Asia / China
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Author
Pamela Kyle Crossley
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
23.9 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
89-034963
Dewey Edition
20
Target Audience
College Audience
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
951/.03
Lc Classification Number
Ds731.M35c76 1990
Copyright Date
1990

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