Myth of ethnic conflict and ethnic revolutions, 1644–1911
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6039451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kent Deng (0000-0002-9795-3646, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-221 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Ethnicity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14631369.2014.880589 |
| OpenAlex | W2083724183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
There has been a long-entrenched view that China’s Qing Dynasty was a ‘Manchu Dynasty’, which imposed alien conquest on China’s majority of the ethnic Han. Such a view has made the Manchus allegedly responsible for all the social evils from the 1840 Opium War onwards on the one hand and all the ‘anti-Manchu’ sentimentalities and movements, such as the Taipings and Republicans, automatically legitimate and revolutionary on the other. This article challenges this stereotype and argues with historical evidence that the ‘Manchu rule’ was a myth. Social conflicts in late Qing were mainly between the Han Chinese themselves. It is time to end the ‘Manchu rule’ as an easy pretext to conceal the true social issues and problems in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century China
Ancient history · China · CONQUEST · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Mythology · Opium · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pretext · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |