Mark Elliott (10)
Auteur van The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
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Were you also told that the name of the dynasty (Qing) meant in Chinese 'pure and bright'? Professor Elliott, one of the very very few scholars who is fluent in Manchu, informs us that "in the Manchu language the new name [it used to be called simply Manju or 'Manchu'] was Daicing, which in both Manchu and Mongolian means "warrior." (p. 55) Did you know that Qianlong would probably have preferred his youngest daughter Hexiao, born in 1775 when he was 64 years old, to follow him on the throne rather than his 15th son (the only son of 17 who was even remotely qualified)? That despite his fame as an astute art collector and artist, his own paintings were quite mediocre (although his calligraphy was exceptionally fine)? His chapters on the socio-economic policies followed by Qianlong shed an entire new light for me on current Chinese history and the Party's policies. I won't write more because if you're interested enough in this subject to be reading this review, you MUST read this volume.
Finally, the "Bibliographic Essay" at the back of the book is one of the finest bibliographies I've ever seen on the Qing Dynasty. Its short synopses of reference materials (in Chinese and English) is worth its weight in gold and has sifted for all of us, the wheat from the chaff.
Five stars? This book is worth ten stars!… (meer)