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To mark the beginning of a new year, we have once again compiled a bibliography of English-language publications in Manchu studies from the last year. We’re eager to learn of publications that have fallen off our radar, so please let us know at [email protected] if you’re like other titles included in this list (which we’ll continue to update)!
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Söderblom Saarela, Mårten. The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
Wai, Hung Tak. Redefining Heresy and Tolerance: Governance of Muslims and Christians in the Qing Empire before 1864. Hong Kong University Press, 2024.
Articles
Issue 20 of Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies
Hudgins, Austin M. “A Manchu Bannerman and his Aim of Archery” (translation).
Meng, Elvin. “Ioi Cung’s Manchu Lessons, 1913–1919” (research note).
Bramao-Ramos, Sarah. Review of The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe, by Mårten Söderblom Saarela.
Chung, Yan Hon Michael. Review of Qing ru Guan qian bubing yanjiu 清入關前步兵研究 Ming-Qing Military Revolution: Study on the Infantry Perspective in Early Qing Period, by Zhang Jian.
In Other Journals
Battogtokh, Gerelmaa, Shagdarsuren Dashjamts, and Bold Sharav. “Clarifying Mongolian translation of ‘Manchu Anatomy’ preserved in the National Library of Mongolia.” Library Progress International 44, no. 3 (2024): 20705-20709.
Chen, Huiying. “The Pragmatic Way: Managing the Streets in Qing Beijing.” Journal of Urban History (2024).
Chung, Yan Hon Michael. “Negotiation and Innovation: Artillery Technology, Ethnicity, and Formation of the Hanjun.” Late Imperial China 45, no. 2 (2024): 153–191.
Eijk, Juul. “Compassionate Occupation: Yongzheng’s Purposes for Relocating the Qing Garrison Away from Lhasa.” Ming Qing Yanjiu 28, no. 1 (2024): 39–52.
Gao, Yuxia and Riccardo Moratto. “Language and translation policies in China’s multilingual governance: A study of the early and mid-Qing dynasty.” Language Policy 23 (2024): 169–192.
Iiyama, Tomoyasu. “The Emergence of the Yuan Non-Han Ancestry in Late Qing North China.” Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 (2024): 1–23.
Kang, Minha. “The Grammaticalization of the ‘Imperative Form+manggi’ Constructions in Written Manchu.” 알타이학보 34 (2024): 17–35.
Keliher, Macabe. “Ritual in the Early Modern World: Proliferation, State-Formation, and the Work of the Manchu Surrender Ceremony.” Journal of World History 35, no. 3 (2024): 377-406.
Qiang, Guangmei. “Revisiting the “Inner Asianness” of the Qing Dynasty from the Perspective of Multilingual Composition.” Journal of chinese humanities 10, no. 3 (2024): 238–251.
Qiu, Yuanyuan. “Ethnic Boundaries and Identity Fluidity of Bannermen and Civilians in the Qing Dynasty.” Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 8, no. 2 (2024): 327–349.
Randall, Ian. “George Borrow (1803–1881) in St Petersburg and the Scriptures in Manchu.” Journal of European Baptist Studies 24, no. 1(2024): 41–63.
Runze, Liu. “The Identity of Joseon Interpreters in the Qing Empire.” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 37, no. 1 (2024): 1–25.
Sepe, Agostino. “Chinese Civilians Beyond the Palisade: an Inquiry on the Opening of Northern Manchuria to Han Commoners in the Yongzheng era.” Ming Qing Yanjiu 27, no. 2 (2024): 187–204.
Snowberger, Aaron Daniel, and Choong Ho Lee. “Manchu Script Letters Dataset Creation and Labeling.” Journal of information and communication convergence engineering 22, no. 1 (2024): 80–87.
Tsai, Ming-Che. “The Variations in the Same Theme: A Comparative Study on Three Manchu Translations of the Edict About Researches of Manchu Origins.” Compilation & Translation Review 17, no. 1 (2024).
Weimar, Gregor Marius. “‘They will know and fear the law’ – Emperor Yongzheng’s Preface in the Great Qing Code of 1740.” Ming Qing Yanjiu 28, no. 1:88-106.
Wu, Julia Manchu. “The New Year Tangse Ceremony and the Making of Qing Rule.” Late Imperial China 45, no. 2 (2024): 113-152.
Xiao, Jingjia, Shiyi Zhang, and Xing Wang. “The ‘War of Position’ in Memory: The ‘Siden Saman’ and the Revivification of Manchu Shamanism in Northeastern China.” Asian Anthropology 23, no. 2 (2024): 73–93.
Chapters in Edited volumes
Deng, Ke, and Leo Tak-hung Chan. “Translatability and the Politics of Multilingualism: The Discourse on Chinese-Manchu Translation in the Eighteenth Century.” In Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation, edited by Ruselle Meade, Claire Shih, and Kyung Hye Kim, 50–64. Routledge, 2024.
Whiteman, Steven. “Beijing and Beyond: Imperial Landscapes and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rulership in Qing-Era Eurasia.” In The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, edited by Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras, 677–697. Routledge, 2024.
Reviews
Atwood, Christopher P. Review of The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy under the Qianlong Emperor, by Mårten Söderblom Saarela. Chinese Studies International 28, no. 1 (2024): 1–4.
Sneath, David. Review of The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty, by Sagang Sechen, translated by Johan Elverskog. The Seventeenth Century 39, no. 3 (2024): 508–509.
Dissertations
Chen, Xiao. “Punishment, frontier, and ethnicity in the making of the Qing Empire (1636-1912).” PhD diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024.
Luo, Chenxi. “Bondage in the Age of Mobility: Booi Slavery, Migration, and Law in Early Qing China.” PhD diss., Washington University in St. Louis, 2024.
Luo, Xizi. “Meritocracy or not: state, elite families, and the examination system in the Qing dynasty.” PhD diss., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2024.
Su, Tong. “The Phantom of Empire: Stagecraft in Qing Court Production of Art and Theater 1700–1827.” PhD diss., The University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2024.
Xu, Chang. “Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and the Qing Empire, 1644-1800.” PhD diss., Washington University in St. Louis, 2024.