A Translucent MirrorHistory and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology

Crossley, Pamela Kyle

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“…Rather, they tend to view the Qing as a traditional Inner Asian empire (like the Mongol empire) founded by an Inner Asian group (the Manchu) who ruled the empire in a very different way from traditional Chinese dynasties. For more discussion of this issue, see Crossley (1992Crossley ( , 1999, Rawski (1996), Elliott (2001Elliott ( , 2006 and Perdue (2005). Outer Mongolia declared independence from the Qing empire just two days before the Republic of China was established at the end of 1911.…”

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Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the struggle for Social Justice: Essays inspired by the work of Geoff Whitty

2023

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He is a sociologist of education with research interests in the process of research capacity and capability building and the relationship between everyday professional and academic discourse and practice. He has been Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and was founding Director (Research) at the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore. He served as Interim Director of the IOE and UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (London). Before joining the IOE as a teacher educator in 1987, he taught in primary and secondary schools in London.

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“…For instance, the Junxian system in China defined the limits of the Han Chinese world vis-a-vis the 'tribal' other (Bello, 2005). The Qing had a complex ethnic system by which Mongols, Tibetans and Uyghurs-peripheral identities in contemporary China were incorporated, while those further Southwest were considered uncivilised (Crossley, 2000). If not for Sinocentric views of 'savage' others, Tibetan accounts have also caricatured distinct Himalayan groups as 'uncivilised' the further they were from the Buddhist centre (Huber, 2011).…”

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Reflections on Multidisciplinary Scholarship in the Study of Himalayan Borders and Borderlands

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2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Early mapping of Himalayan frontiers, were intimately tied to the imperial conquest of space. Polycentric contestations of the British, Russian, Qing and even Tibetan expansionist imaginaries dominated such territorial endeavours. In the mid-twentieth century, in the switch from empire to nation, scholarship on borders and borderlands reinforced methodological nationalism in spaces with multiple sovereignty and overlapping treaties. While early post-colonial scholarship critiqued the colonial construction of borders, there have been efforts to tease out newer ways of narrating borders that take cognisance of the continuing heterarchies of violence in the modern nation. Such scholarly ‘decolonial’ endeavours have challenged the overwhelming emphasis on state and territoriality in colonial and later national accounts on borders. By imagining the Himalayan transregional frontier as central, rather than peripheral to state making, these notes challenge the cultivation of the Himalayas as culturally, even civilisationally ‘primitive’. Conceptualising the borderland as an epistemic category, these survey notes synthesise more recent decolonial scholarship on Himalayan borders and borderlands to sketch out emerging geographies of (im)mobility, militarisation and violence.

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“…The Qing court employed such strategies towards codifying differences and establishing a hierarchy to extend control over its diverse empire. Crossley's (1999) transformative work examines the Qing codification of identity as a means to manage diversity within its empire. She finds that many identities, including the category of Manchu itself, were created or consolidated during Qing rule to establish sovereignty during the process of expansion.…”

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A post‐imperial, pluralist nationalism? From the Five Nation Republic of China to multicultural Taiwan

Ferrer

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Although many nations emerged during the collapse of the empire, the case of China is curious in its failure to divide into separate nation‐states. Resisting disunion, the Republic of China (ROC) adopted a rhetoric of national pluralism and laid claim to the fallen Qing Empire's vast territory. This divergence from other post‐imperial nationalisms engenders questions about the legacy of imperialism in the ROC's approaches to nation‐building. Such questions remain salient after the ROC retreat to Taiwan (1949), as since the end of martial law (1987), the ROC has championed itself as a model of multiculturalism. This paper examines the extent to which today's ‘Multicultural Taiwan’ paradigm differs from 20th‐century official conceptualisations of pluralism, through discourse analysis of publications from the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (MTAC). Investigation finds that despite centring Taiwan in national ideology, certain Chinese imperialist attitudes towards cultural hierarchy remained influential in MTAC representations of pluralism within Asia.

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A Translucent MirrorHistory and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology

Cited by 6 publications

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Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the struggle for Social Justice: Essays inspired by the work of Geoff Whitty

Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Education and the struggle for Social Justice: Essays inspired by the work of Geoff Whitty

Reflections on Multidisciplinary Scholarship in the Study of Himalayan Borders and Borderlands

A post‐imperial, pluralist nationalism? From the Five Nation Republic of China to multicultural Taiwan

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