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SUMMARY:Manchu-language Historiography and State Theory in the Seventeenth
 -century Globe - Shoufu Yin (University of British Columbia)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250526T150000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20250526T163000
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DESCRIPTION:During the mid-seventeenth century\, the Manchu Qing State gre
 w from an indigenous polity in Manchuria into a superpower in global polit
 ics. During this process\, the court embarked on an ambitious project: com
 piling a comprehensive history in the Manchu language\, followed by transl
 ations into Mongolian and Chinese. Out of this vision\, by the 1650s\, the
  Qing court had not only translated a vast portion of the Ming Veritable R
 ecords into Manchu but also completed the first draft of the Ming history 
 in Manchu\, titled Ming gurun i suduri. Unfortunately\, all these intellec
 tual outputs fell into oblivion beginning in the early eighteenth century 
 and remain largely\, if not entirely\, unknown to the scholarly community 
 today. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped manuscripts in Manch
 u and Mongolian\, this talk uncovers the Qing historiographical project of
  the mid-seventeenth century. As I will argue\, this exploration offers un
 ique insight into how the Qing court conceptualized homeland\, statehood\,
  and inter-polity relations. Ultimately\, it invites us to reconsider the 
 intellectual horizons of the global seventeenth century.\nSpeakers:\nShouf
 u Yin (University of British Columbia)
LOCATION:All Souls College (Hovenden Room)\, High Street OX1 4AL
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/993d36c0-e821-43a8-a0d2-05c8a12d2a3a/
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