Mark Elliott 教授講演会

日時：12月10日（月）　15時～17時
場所：東洋文庫2階講演室
講演者：Mark Elliott（ハーバード大学教授）
題目："Imperial Thinking" and the New Qing History"
Debates stirred up by the “New Qing History” over the nature of Manchu rule, processes of acculturation and sinicization, the incorporation of the Inner Asian frontier into the empire, and the utility of non-Chinese-language sources are far from settled. While many Chinese colleagues today acknowledge the fact of sustained Manchu difference on some level and grant its relevance to a historically accurate picture of the Qing dynasty, there is much less consensus as to the implications arising from thinking of the Qing state as a “Manchu empire” with particularly “Inner Asian” characteristics. To some, such an approach seems to challenge accepted notions of Chinese historical unity, or even to threaten the legitimacy and unity of the contemporary Chinese state. This paper examines the reception of the New Qing History by scholars in China and its connections to new types of thinking that appear to draw much tighter connections between the imperial past and the revolutionary present.