Abstract:From the outset of his reign, the Yongzheng emperor [r. 1723–1735] asserted control over personnel appointments in officialdom and the military. He used the convention of the palace audience to interview candidates for hiring and promotion personally and to select those officials (including Manchu and Han candidates) who met his vision of masculine strength and power. While Yongzheng's political and cultural reading of appearance was shaped by his Manchu background, he also appraised candidates based on the concepts of Chinese physiognomy and the physical prototypes of his trusted officials. This article, by uncovering and analyzing the personal thoughts of a Qing emperor contained in the secret resumé dossier, extends scholarly understanding of the construction of Manchu identity and masculinity. Furthermore, this investigation sheds useful light on the two, intertwining strands of Yongzheng's political project, that is, the emperor's actions to gain more direct power over personnel selection, and his efforts to define and impose his conception of the required looks and qualities of a loyal, talented official fit for serving the Qing regime.
{"title":"The Court Audience and the Manchu Masculine Ideal: The Yongzheng Emperor's Secret Personnel Files","authors":"L. Lu","doi":"10.1353/late.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:From the outset of his reign, the Yongzheng emperor [r. 1723–1735] asserted control over personnel appointments in officialdom and the military. He used the convention of the palace audience to interview candidates for hiring and promotion personally and to select those officials (including Manchu and Han candidates) who met his vision of masculine strength and power. While Yongzheng's political and cultural reading of appearance was shaped by his Manchu background, he also appraised candidates based on the concepts of Chinese physiognomy and the physical prototypes of his trusted officials. This article, by uncovering and analyzing the personal thoughts of a Qing emperor contained in the secret resumé dossier, extends scholarly understanding of the construction of Manchu identity and masculinity. Furthermore, this investigation sheds useful light on the two, intertwining strands of Yongzheng's political project, that is, the emperor's actions to gain more direct power over personnel selection, and his efforts to define and impose his conception of the required looks and qualities of a loyal, talented official fit for serving the Qing regime.","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"42 1","pages":"49 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49347919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:No matter how bizarre or fantastic the events they describe, zhiguai (tales of the strange) are almost always set in mundane locations that can be located on a map, proving a wealth of geographic information for a body of narrative between the personal and the colective. Using GIS (Geographic Information Systems), this article explores the intersection of geography with conceptual categories of the strange in Qian Xiyan's early seventeenth century collection Kuaiyuan zhiyi, examining it on the levels of the collection as a whole, thematic categories, a particular region, and interregional connections. The city of Suzhou is Qian's central focus where all the different forms of the divine and the demonic cross paths.
{"title":"Charting a Strange Garden: Mapping the Kuaiyuan Zhiyi","authors":"R. Huntington","doi":"10.1353/late.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:No matter how bizarre or fantastic the events they describe, zhiguai (tales of the strange) are almost always set in mundane locations that can be located on a map, proving a wealth of geographic information for a body of narrative between the personal and the colective. Using GIS (Geographic Information Systems), this article explores the intersection of geography with conceptual categories of the strange in Qian Xiyan's early seventeenth century collection Kuaiyuan zhiyi, examining it on the levels of the collection as a whole, thematic categories, a particular region, and interregional connections. The city of Suzhou is Qian's central focus where all the different forms of the divine and the demonic cross paths.","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"42 1","pages":"179 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42506704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the role of Musulman (known today as Uyghurs) knowledge in the writing of local history in late Qing Xinjiang. In the last decade of the Qing Empire, the Qing court ordered officials in Xinjiang to compile local gazetteers for the purpose of teaching local history and geography to primary school students across the province. However, because most historical sources were lost during the uprisings of 1864–1877, many gazetteer compilers in Xinjiang were forced to rely on the expertise of local Musulmans. Qing agents routinely consulted Musulman elders, interviewed survivors of the uprisings, translated Turkic-language texts, and drew upon the knowledge and labor of Musulman treasure hunters and diggers to procure historical artifacts. Information sourced from Musulman experts was often included in local and provincial gazetteers, but only after being manipulated by Qing editors seeking to strengthen the place of Xinjiang in the nascent Qing nation-state.
{"title":"Musulman Knowledge, Local History, and the Making of the Qing Nation-State","authors":"Kevin Kind","doi":"10.1353/late.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/late.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the role of Musulman (known today as Uyghurs) knowledge in the writing of local history in late Qing Xinjiang. In the last decade of the Qing Empire, the Qing court ordered officials in Xinjiang to compile local gazetteers for the purpose of teaching local history and geography to primary school students across the province. However, because most historical sources were lost during the uprisings of 1864–1877, many gazetteer compilers in Xinjiang were forced to rely on the expertise of local Musulmans. Qing agents routinely consulted Musulman elders, interviewed survivors of the uprisings, translated Turkic-language texts, and drew upon the knowledge and labor of Musulman treasure hunters and diggers to procure historical artifacts. Information sourced from Musulman experts was often included in local and provincial gazetteers, but only after being manipulated by Qing editors seeking to strengthen the place of Xinjiang in the nascent Qing nation-state.","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"42 1","pages":"135 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45705591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise and Fall of Dynasties","authors":"M. Loewe","doi":"10.4324/9781003242710-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242710-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90024804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Basis and Practice of Imperial Sovereignty","authors":"M. Loewe","doi":"10.4324/9781003242710-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242710-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75450204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Operation of the Economy","authors":"M. Loewe","doi":"10.4324/9781003242710-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003242710-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43948,"journal":{"name":"LATE IMPERIAL CHINA","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74160639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：