A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology

by Pamela Kyle Crossley

Book Overview

In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including Manchu, Korean, and Chinese archival materials, Crossley argues that distortions introduced in seventeenth-...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234243
• ISBN13: 9780520234246
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"