The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy Under the Qianlong Emperor - (Sinica Leidensia) by Mårten Söderblom Saarela (Hardcover)

About the Book

This study of the roles played by the Manchu language in the Qing empire at the height of its power presents a revisionist account of Manchu not as a language in decline, but as extensively and consciously used language.

Book Synopsis

This is the first book-length study of the roles played by the Manchu language at the center of the Qing empire at the height of its power in the eighteenth century.
It presents a revisionist account of Manchu not as a language in decline, but as extensively and consciously used language in a variety of areas.
It treats the use, discussion, regulation, and philological study of Manchu at the court of an emperor who cared deeply for the maintenance and history of the language of his dynasty.

About the Author

Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Ph.D. (2015), is an Asia specialist at Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller. He previously worked as an associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is a student of the cultural and political history of language in China.