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Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 20, Patricia rated it it was amazing Shelves: steppe-history , chinese-history-iconography-arch. The best--absolutely best--biography of a Chinese emperor I've ever read.
While a number of new hefty biographies have been released on Chinese emperors such as Perpetual Happiness and Patricia Ebrey's Emperor Huizong , this little volume by Professor Mark C. Elliott on the best known emperor of the Qing, surpasses them all. It is concise, well-written, insightful, and elegantly and eloquently doesn't allow a statement to pass without an example.
If only more historical biographies would use The best--absolutely best--biography of a Chinese emperor I've ever read. If only more historical biographies would use this device! I learned more about China during the 17th and 18th centuries in these pages on Qianlong's life and rule than the many standard histories of the Qing I've read.
Elliott's wonderful, illustrative examples make this book into a page-turner. I confess I had not expected such a rich experience from a volume in a series of "World Biographies" a Longman series.
If only Elliott would write similar volumes for all the Qing emperors who have been woefully neglected in favor of the Tang, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Were you also told that the name of the dynasty Qing meant in Chinese 'pure and bright'? Professor Elliott, one of the very very few scholars who is fluent in Manchu, informs us that "in the Manchu language the new name [it used to be called simply Manju or 'Manchu'] was Daicing , which in both Manchu and Mongolian means "warrior.
That despite his fame as an astute art collector and artist, his own paintings were quite mediocre although his calligraphy was exceptionally fine? His chapters on the socio-economic policies followed by Qianlong shed an entire new light for me on current Chinese history and the Party's policies.
I won't write more because if you're interested enough in this subject to be reading this review, you MUST read this volume. Finally, the "Bibliographic Essay" at the back of the book is one of the finest bibliographies I've ever seen on the Qing Dynasty. Its short synopses of reference materials in Chinese and English is worth its weight in gold and has sifted for all of us, the wheat from the chaff.
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Five stars? This book is worth ten stars!
Prentice Hall. Get this from a library! Emperor Qianlong: son of heaven, man of the world. Beattie, J.
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This new entry in the Longman Library of World Biography series offers an intimate and provocative account of the Manchu emperor Qianlong (), one. This new entry in the Longman Library of World Biography series offers an intimate and provocative account of the Manchu emperor Qianlong (), one of the world's great empire-builders, who helped build the foundation of the modern Chinese nation. Mark C. Elliott is the.
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Family, Ritual, and Dynastic Rule Chapter 4. The Dilemma of Manchu Success Chapter 5. The Peripatetic Sovereign Chapter 6.