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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Qing empire"”.
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Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: public culture, identities, and law, 1644—1911
… identities, and law of Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire (1644-1911). It goes beyond current scholarship which focuses on official and elite narratives of Chinese Muslims, and tries to explore the public culture in which ordinary Chinese Muslims participated in their daily life during the Qing …
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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
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From Empire to Nation: The Politics of Language in Manchuria (1890-1911)
… explores the issues of language and power in the Qing Empire’s (1644-1911) northeastern borderlands within the larger context of political reforms in late Qing China between 1890 and 1911. To the present, much research on the history of language in late Qing China continues to fall within the …
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"Writing ""Taiwanese"": The Péh-oē-jī romanization and identity construction in Taiwan, 1860s-1990s"
… the 1990s. Under three political regimes― the Qing Empire, Japanese colonial rule, and the post-war Nationalist regime, POJ, originally created by the Presbyterian Church missionaries for Taiwanese peoples in the 1860s, was utilized in proselytism, school education, medical study, and as an …
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Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang
… implemented, the changing strategies that the Qing Empire employed to govern Xinjiang from 1759, when this area was annexed into the empire, to 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed. Focusing on the changes in the applicability of the two legal systems--Qing state law and indigenous Islamic …
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Pastoralism, Agriculture, and Stress: A Comparative Analysis of Two 19th Century Qing Dynasty Populations
… two historic 19th century populations from the Qing Empire (1644 – 1912) of China. Samples included crania from a mobile and relatively diffuse pastoralist population from Urga, Mongolia (n=40) and crania from a group of southern Chinese laborers (n=40) interred in Karluk, Alaska who represent a …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… about China exceeded British knowledge of the Qing Empire. China’s historical isolation had resulted in two substantial gaps in Western knowledge of the Middle Kingdom: the first between Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century travelogue and seventeenth-century Jesuit scholarship; and the second …
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Dead Bodies and Forensic Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949
… and literati-officials. After the fall of the Qing empire (1644-1911), successive governments of the Republican period (1912-1949) adopted the late imperial state's technologies of forensic examination in their attempts to institute a modern court system. This dissertation investigates the …
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The Limits of Empire: The Qing-Gurkha War and China’s Trans-Himalayan Frontier, 1788–1793
This dissertation investigates the Qing-Gurkha War (1788–1793) to provide insights into the Qing empire’s presence in the trans-Himalayan frontier, its administration of Tibet, and the limits of its influence in the late 18th century. The conflict was triggered by repeated Gurkha incursions from …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… public to integrate themselves into the Qing state and Chinese society. At the same time, instead of causing a decline in Islamic belief among Sino-Muslims, these associations and networks also provided more ingenious and extensive venues and methods for them to interact with one another …
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Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction
… in revenge narratives. Ranging from the late Qing to modern China, this research project elaborates on the existing scholarship regarding historical and cultural meanings of revenge to demonstrate the use of earlier textual sources by intellectual writers to embody their ideas and strategies. …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
The importance of the Mongol Empire and its long-term effects across Eurasia have long been an object of fascination among historians. However, little has been written about how Činggis Qan and his empire were remembered in Mongolia in the post-imperial period — that is, from 1368, when the last …
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Creating local landscape: tidal bores and seawalls at haining (1720s-1830s)
… as a social and cultural instrument in the high Qing (1760s-1820s), a multi-ethnic empire with the largest territory and the most diverse ethnic groups in the history of China. In particular, I ask how a multiethnic empire rules and how the small county of Haining in east central China fit into …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
This dissertation analyses the discursive process through which British famine relief advocates weighed competing claims to humanitarian assistance from famine-affected communities in different regions of the world in the 1870s: namely, during the famines in Bihar (1873–1874), Asia Minor …