Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria
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Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria

Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands

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Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria

Language, Literacy, and Power in Late Qing Borderlands

About this book

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Jirim League witnessed a linguistic struggle between Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian powers. The Qing Empire envisioned a trilingual educational system, with the aim of improving the Jirim Mongols' ability to read Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian. Through this policy, the Qing sought to transform loyal imperial subjects into modern patriotic nationals and incorporate them into an integrated and united China under a Manchu constitutional monarchy. The late Qing's language policy and strategy for ruling the Mongols of Manchuria was an attempt to address the enduring multilingual legacies in Qing administration and people's everyday life, growing local ethnic tensions, cross-boundary connections, imperial rivalries, and the rise of new ideas concerning nation, modern state, and international relations in East Asia. This book challenges the notion of Chinese language reform as a story of linear progression towards national monolingualism, highlights the power of multilingualism in Chinese nationalist discourse from a peripheral, non-Han Chinese perspective, and questions the extent to which national languages dominate the writing of history.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040772638
Topic
History
Subtopic
Literacy
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Map and Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Note on Transcription, Names, Toponyms, and Document Titles
  10. Qing Reign Periods
  11. General of the Three Eastern Provinces
  12. Introduction
  13. 1. Kamcime: Ruling a Polyglot Empire
  14. 2. The Linguistic Scene
  15. 3. The Literacy Question
  16. 4. Literate in What Language
  17. 5. Reimagining China and the World
  18. 6. Trilingual Practice in the Jirim League and Manchuria
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index