Recent Publications: Manchu in Transregional History

Recent Publications: Manchu in Transregional History

Special Issue: Manchu in Transregional History

Guest Editors: Katja Pessl & Julia C. Schneider

in: Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies, Volume 15,2018

 

The international symposium “Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians” was organized by Katja Pessl and Julia C. Schneider and convened at the University of Göttingen on September 19-22, 2017. The conference essays are selected and edited in the special issue: Manchu in Transregianl History in the Journal: Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies.

Introduction: Manchu in Transregional History: Diplomacy, Biographies, Textbooks
简介: 跨区域史中的满语:外交,传记,与课本

Through the symposium and the essays compiled here, we aim to shed light on how scholars engage with Manchu studies in a way that is meaningful not only to Qing historians, but also relevant for approaches to global history. Scholars used the Manchu language as a tool to explore sources from one of the eras that have shaped present-day East, Central, and Inner Asia. Beyond linguistics and philology, this impetus may motivate readers––scholars and students alike––to engage in Manchu studies and contribute to the emerging field of global studies. Framed by the overall theme “Manchu in Global History,” our intention was to embed Manchu studies and (new) Qing history in an understanding of history and historiography on a global scale, an endeavour that has gained momentum in recent times. Manchu sources thus provide crucial access to relevant areas of history so far under- and even unstudied.
我們舉辦座談會並征集論文,不僅僅是希望揭示一種於清史學者有裨益的語言學習方法,而是意圖建立起滿語與全球史的聯系,令學者能夠以滿語為研究工具,去探索塑造了現代東亞、中亞和內亞形態的時代的材料。我們期待著能夠收獲超越語言學和文獻學的讀者,也鼓勵師生們積極參與滿族研究,為方興未艾的全球史做出應有的貢獻。以“全球史中的滿語”為題,我們冀圖將滿族研究和新清史置於全球性的史學框架中去理解,這一意圖近些年來得到了許多響應。滿族研究為我們提供了了解相關區域歷史的重要機會,而我們對這些區域歷史的研究往往不足,甚至全無了解。

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