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Article: The Manchus (The Peoples of Asia).
- Article from:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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CROSSLEY, PAMELA KYLE. xvi, 239 pp., illus., map, bibliogr. Oxford, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997. $29.95
The Manchus, after the Mongols, were another non-Han people who had a profound influence on China and the Chinese. The more than 260-year Manchu rule of China ended in 1912 amid a Hah racist revolution. Consequently, the Manchus have become like a shadow to the Han-Chinese, evidence to the ability of the Hah-Chinese civilization to transform non-Han peoples.
Pamela Crossley's monograph on the Manchus, the first of its kind, is a powerful critique of nationalist rhetorics. Her work presents the Manchus in a light different from the 'barbaric' stereotype ...