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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Manchu"”.
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The Morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu
… description of the morphosyntax of Deretu Manchu, an endangered variety of Manchu spoken traditionally within my mukvn, or clan. First, this work introduces the Manchu language, community-related information, revitalization, and recent speaker demographics. This information is followed by …
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The status of the Manchu language in the early Ch'ing
Thesis--University of Washington
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… the framework of national language. Drawing on Manchu and Chinese sources, this thesis argues that the Qing emperors devised a multilingual regime to recreate the imperial polyglot reality and to rule a purposefully diverse but unifying empire. From the seventeenth century, the Qing emperors …
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Altaic evidence for the Japanese and Korean case suffix systems
… Old Korean nominative i are compared with the Manchu nominative i and genitive ini of the third person singular pronoun and also with another Manchu suffix inu; with the Mongolian nominative i and genitive inu of the third person singular pronoun; and with the Old Turkic nominative *i and …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
This dissertation argues that the Manchu conquest of China in the mid-seventeenth century transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences in the early modern period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from …
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Agronomic, Phenological, and Physiological Responses of Old and Modern Soybean Varieties to Soil Moisture Deficit
… examine the responses of two old, low-yielding ('Manchu' and 'Dunfield') and two modern, high-yielding varieties ('Williams' and 'Clark 63') to long-term soil moisture deficit.
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Race and the Modernist Imagination: The Politics of Form, 1900--1940
… confronts its limitations in the Dr. Fu-Manchu thrillers of Sax Rohmer, where melodramatic race-wars threaten to end white England's global sovereignty. In Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West's primitivist narratives, blackness and femininity conjoin to become metropolitan modernity's …
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Soft power and the Qing state: publishing, book collection, and political legitimacy in eighteenth-century China
… to consolidate the political legitimacy of the Manchu ruling house over the Han Chinese populace through using institutions inside and outside the state to distribute imperial writings. The Qianlong emperor sought to appeal to the values of the Han Chinese literati in writings where he discusses …
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Representações do lado sombrio (Dark exoticism) da cultura chinesa em Macau: 1850-1915. Alteridade, interculturalidade e construções do corpo
… do Ópio, pelas rebeliões constantes ao poder manchu, entre outras ocorrências, se expõe mais à modernidade ocidental e deixa antever as abissais diferenças a vários níveis, nomeadamente o da medicina e o próprio procedimento penal com a pena de morte por decapitação e por leng chi …
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Testimony Knowledge: Indigenous Research of Land, Story and Visual Narrative/Filmmaking in Northeast China
… in Northeast China, with a focus on the Manchu, Sibe, Evenki, and Oroqen peoples. The findings reveal the complex negotiations of ethnic identity and cultural expression among Northeast China’s Indigenous communities amid the challenges of modernization. Through analysing ethnographic …
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The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind
… eighteenth century was under another foreign (Manchu, or Qing) dynasty. In modern times Mao’s dictatorship was deeply influenced by Stalinism as well as Marxism. However, despite assumptions about the advantages of openness to the world, most of the contacts cited above have not been …
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… British and the American in the late days of the Manchu-ruled late Qing, anti-foreign revolts during the Boxer Rebellion, and domestic struggles between the bourgeois reformers and the traditional doctrines of the Confucian school that accumulated in the Hundred Days’ Reform of imperial edicts in …
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Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction
… a whole city), nevertheless, transcend the anti-Manchu discourse and further indict the repeated violence of dynastic change. Lu Xun: 1881-1936) manipulates multiple editions of the Meijianchi tale in compiling his “Zhujian”: Forging the Swords, 1926). Because his criticism of filial …
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How has Western detective fiction represented and othered marginalized groups such as Asians, women and people with disabilities, how does that fiction relate to Indian detective fiction, and how might that dynamic be subverted through my experimental creative work, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI?
… exoticizing and ‘othering’ including Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, and how tropes such as the silent ninja, delicate damsel and dragon lady remain present. It discusses how women detectives have been represented and how detectives with disabilities have been ‘othered’ as having superpowers or given token …
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While the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control Policy and the Makings of Chinese Modernity
… of fieldwork in and around an inter-ethnic (Manchu-Han) village in northeast China, my dissertation explores how a shifting series of discursive constructions of peasants as “backward” subjects has legitimized the state’s sustained biomedical intrusion into reproduction in rural China, and …
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Punishment, frontier, and ethnicity in the making of the Qing Empire (1636-1912)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01