Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China - Softcover

Elverskog, Johan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824833309 ISBN 13: 9780824833305

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008

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Our Great Qing has brilliantly completed a most important task: putting forward many new questions, opening numerous prospects, and making us go deeper in our understanding of the history of the Qing and Mongolia.-- "Journal of Religion" Masterful . . . represents an important contribution to the 'new Qing history' that is now changing the image of late imperial China by offering more nuanced interpretations of this period.-- "International Journal of Asian Studies" Elverskog's book is a pleasure to read, managing as it does to weave together a detailed knowledge of modern Mongol history and the broad scope of its relevance for Asian history. His research is solidly based in the classics of Mongol history, as well as close readings of an impressive array of archive materials . . . made accessible to the non-specialist here for the first time. He frames his arguments within a wide-ranging body of theoretical work covering both religion and politics. At the same time, this book is refreshingly comparative, especially in terms of other empires (from the Roman to the British).-- "Journal of Chinese Religions" This excellent study fills a distinct gap in existing scholarship. Interpretations of Qing conquest, administration, and ideology have given us a picture of how the empire was steered from the center. How the empire was responded to from its conquered territories--whether in China or in the Upper Amur, Mongolia, Turkestan, Tibet, or Taiwan--has been less well understood. . . . In Our Great Qing, Johan Elverskog lays the foundation not only for understanding traditional Mongol identities under the Qing empire but for a reevaluation of the cultural history of eighteenth-century Mongolia as well.-- "History of Religions" In a major contribution to scholarship, Johan Elverskog has drawn on sources not previously translated into European languages to offer fascinating insights into the strategies by which the Manchu dynasty promoted the Gelukpa Buddhist tradition in the service of its imperial ambitions. Our Great Qing breaks new ground in Mongolian studies.-- "The Middle Way"

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In a sweeping overview of four centuries of Mongolian history that draws on previously untapped sources, Johan Elverskog opens up totally new perspectives on some of the most urgent questions historians have recently raised about the role of Buddhism in the constitution of the Qing empire. Theoretically informed and strongly comparative in approach, Elverskog's work tells a fascinating and important story that will interest all scholars working at the intersection of religion and politics."" -Mark Elliott, Harvard University ""Johan Elverskog has rewritten the political and intellectual history of Mongolia from the bottom up, telling a convincing story that clarifies for the first time the revolutions which Mongolian concepts of community, rule, and religion underwent from 1500 to 1900. His account of Qing rule in Mongolia doesn't just tell us what images the Qing emperors wished to project, but also what images the Mongols accepted themselves, and how these changed over the centuries. In the scope of time it covers, the originality of the views advanced, and the accuracy of the scholarship upon which it is based, Our Great Qing seems destined to mark a watershed in Mongolian studies. It will be essential reading for specialists in Mongolian studies and will make an important contribution and riposte to the `new Qing history' now changing the face of late imperial Chinese history. Specialists in Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhism's interaction with the political realm will also find in this work challenging and thought-provoking."" -ChristopherAtwood, Indiana University Although it is generally believed that the Manchus controlled the Mongols through their patronage of Tibetan Buddhism, scant attention has been paid to the Mongol view of the Qing imperial project. In contrast to other accounts of Manchu rule, Our Great Qing focuses not only on what images the metropole wished to project into Mongolia, but also on what images the Mongols acknowledged themselves. Rather than accepting the Manchu's use of Buddhism, Johan Elverskog begins by questioning the static, unhistorical, and hegemonic view of political life implicit in the Buddhist explanation. By stressing instead the fluidity of identity and Buddhist practice as processes continually developing in relation to state formations, this work explores how Qing policies were understood by Mongols and how they came to see themselves as Qing subjects. In his investigation of Mongol society on the eve of the Manchu conquest, Elverskog reveals the distinctive political theory of decentralization that fostered the civil war among the Mongols. He explains how it was that the Manchu Great Enterprise was not to win over ""Mongolia"" but was instead to create a unified Mongol community of which the disparate preexisting communities would merely be component parts. A key element fostering this change was the Qing court's promotion of Gelukpa orthodoxy, which not only transformed Mongol historical narratives and rituals but also displaced the earlier vernacular Mongolian Buddhism. Finally, Elverskog demonstrates how this eighteenth-century conception of a Mongol community, ruled by an aristocracy and nourished by a Buddhist emperor, gave way to a pan-Qing solidarity of all Buddhist peoples against Muslims and Christians and to local identities that united for the first time aristocrats with commoners in a new Mongol Buddhist identity on the eve of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0824833309
• ISBN 13: 9780824833305
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264