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The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture - Richard J. Smith 2015 EPUB Rowman & Littlefield Publishers BOOKS HISTORY
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The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture
Author: Richard J. Smith
Year: 2015
Format: EPUB
File size: 11 MB
Language: ENG

The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted historian Richard J. Smith argues that the pragmatic Qing emperors presented a “Chinese” face to their subjects who lived south of the Great Wall and other ethnic faces (particularly Manchu, Mongolian, Central Asian, and Tibetan) to subjects in other parts of their vast multicultural empire. They were attracted by many aspects of Chinese culture, but far from being completely “sinicized” as many scholars argue, they were also proud of their own cultural traditions and interested in other cultures as well.

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