Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle
Title: A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial ideology
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv, 403 pp. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Ideology, Rulership, & History; Conquest & the Blessing of the Past; Imperial Universalism & Circumscription of Identity; The Great Wall: Trial by Identity: A Discourse on Ancestry; Political Names in Nurgan; The Liaodongese; The Character of Loyalty: The Early Nikan Spectrum; Conquest & Distinctions; Personifications of Fidelity; The Father's House: Boundaries of Rule: Origins of the Khanship; The Collegial Impulse; The Reinvention of Treason; Empire & Identity: Subjugation & Equality; Generating Imperial Authority; Authenticity; Surpassing Limits; The Celestial Pillar: The Wheel-Turning King; The Center; Debating the Past; The Power of Speech; The University Prospect: The Banner Elites; Shady Pasts; Manchuness; Following Chinggis; The Empty Constituency: Postscript: Race & Revolution at the End of the Empire.

Keywords: Chinese Political History, Ch'ing Empire, Qing Dynasty, Imperial China, Nationalism, East Asia National, Race Racial Ethnic, Ideology Historical, Sociology