Speaker
Tomoyasu Iiyama | Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24
Chair/Discussant
Mark Elliott | Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
This talk attempts to shed light on the largely unknown trajectories of the resurgence and evolution of Yuan non-Han ancestries in north China from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. By exploring three relatively well documented cases of the resurgence of the Yuan non-Han ancestry, this talk offers two tentative conclusions. First, the commemoration of the non-Han ancestries seems to have been roused by the two-century-long Gazetteers of the Great Qing Empire compilation project, over the course of which the state reiterated extensive surveys of local worthies, widow chastity, and martyred loyal subjects, including those from the previous dynasties. Second, the late Qing era (roughly mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth century) was one of the pivotal turning points in making of modern ethnic landscape in north China. The memory of Mongol rule authorized by the Qing official historiography have become the wellspring of the twentieth century minzu identity.
Upcoming Events
Visiting Scholar Talks
From Jesuit Baroque and French Gothic to Japanese Temple Style: The History of Catholic Church Architecture in Japan, 19th to Early 20th CenturyTuesday, February 18, 2025
Visiting Scholar Talks
Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in ChinaFriday, February 28, 2025