Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria
Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands
Series: Asian History; 14;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 17 April 2025
- ISBN 9789463727075
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 1280 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black & white 723
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Short description:
This book challenges the notion of Chinese language reform as a story of linear progression towards national monolingualism, highlights the power of multilingualism in Chinese nationalist discourse from a peripheral, non-Han Chinese perspective, and questions the extent to which national languages dominate the writing of history.
MoreLong description:
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Jirim League witnessed a linguistic struggle between Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian powers. The Qing Empire envisioned a trilingual educational system, with the aim of improving the Jirim Mongols’ ability to read Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian. Through this policy, the Qing sought to transform loyal imperial subjects into modern patriotic nationals and incorporate them into an integrated and united China under a Manchu constitutional monarchy. The late Qing’s language policy and strategy for ruling the Mongols of Manchuria was an attempt to address the enduring multilingual legacies in Qing administration and people’s everyday life, growing local ethnic tensions, cross-boundary connections, imperial rivalries, and the rise of new ideas concerning nation, modern state, and international relations in East Asia. This book challenges the notion of Chinese language reform as a story of linear progression towards national monolingualism, highlights the power of multilingualism in Chinese nationalist discourse from a peripheral, non-Han Chinese perspective, and questions the extent to which national languages dominate the writing of history.
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Acknowledgement, Note on Transcription, Names, Toponyms, and Document Titles,Qing Reign Periods,Governor General of the Three Eastern Provinces,Table list,Introduction, Chapter 1. Kamcime: Ruling a Polyglot Empire, Chapter 2. The Linguistic Scene, Chapter 3. The Literacy Question, Chapter 4. Literate in What Language, Chapter 5. Reimagining China and the World, Chapter 6. Trilingual Practice in the Jirim League and Manchuria, Conclusion, Bibliography.
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