David C Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 704181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9792-504X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethnic Chrysalis
Bannermen As Translators
This article argues for rethinking the significance of state-run Manchu language education in the Qing, suggesting that Manchu schools were designed not to maintain Manchu ethnic identity, but to produce a cohort of competent translators from all three of the major ethnic constituencies of the Eight Banners. Official efforts to improve Manchu knowledge in the banners, which took off in the Yongzheng period, were initially directed primarily at Ha…
Manchu Racial Identity on the Qing Frontier
This article examines the early Republican writings of a Daur man from Heilongjiang named Donjina who spent the second half of his life among the Sibe of Ili. It argues that Donjina developed a sense of pan-Manchu identity in dialogue with racial theories that came into vogue in late Qing and Republican China, but also drew on an older vision of Manchu identity tied to participation in the Qing imperial project. Donjina’s writings demonstrate the…
Early Modern Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity
Modern Chinese literature is often understood as marking a self-consciously cosmopolitan departure from a long and largely autochthonous literary tradition. The binary between “modern” and “traditional” implicit in this view forecloses the possibility of reading individual works and broader literary developments in the late Ming and early Qing alongside European counterparts as part of a shared early modernity. After reviewing the emergence of an…
An Undergraduate Course on the Sophists and Aristophanes
Dickinson
Siddhartha
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Siddhartha
Dickinson
An Undergraduate Course on the Sophists and Aristophanes
Early Modern Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity
Modern Chinese literature is often understood as marking a self-consciously cosmopolitan departure from a long and largely autochthonous literary tradition. The binary between “modern” and “traditional” implicit in this view forecloses the possibility of reading individual works and broader literary developments in the late Ming and early Qing alongside European counterparts as part of a shared early modernity. After reviewing the emergence of an…
Manchu Racial Identity on the Qing Frontier
This article examines the early Republican writings of a Daur man from Heilongjiang named Donjina who spent the second half of his life among the Sibe of Ili. It argues that Donjina developed a sense of pan-Manchu identity in dialogue with racial theories that came into vogue in late Qing and Republican China, but also drew on an older vision of Manchu identity tied to participation in the Qing imperial project. Donjina’s writings demonstrate the…
Bannermen As Translators
This article argues for rethinking the significance of state-run Manchu language education in the Qing, suggesting that Manchu schools were designed not to maintain Manchu ethnic identity, but to produce a cohort of competent translators from all three of the major ethnic constituencies of the Eight Banners. Official efforts to improve Manchu knowledge in the banners, which took off in the Yongzheng period, were initially directed primarily at Ha…
Ethnic Chrysalis
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · China (3 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)