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Article: Mark C. Elliott. The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxiii, 580 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-3606-5.
Mark Elliott's The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China is a groundbreaking institutional study of the Manchu banner system and its pivotal role in defining Manchu ethnic sovereignty and preserving Manchu dominance of the imperial power structure during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The book centers on the creation and evolution of the complex and elusive concept of Manchu ethnic identity, an understanding of which the author contends is crucial to understanding Qing rule and its legacy in the modern period. The author asserts that ...