Researches on Manchu Origins

Researches on Manchu Origins, also known as Manzhou Yuanliu Kao, is an important history book published by the Qing Dynasty government in 1777. The Qianlong Emperor sponsored its compilation with the goal of legitimizing Qing rule, as well as identifying the Qing as a successor to the Jin Dynasty (1115–1234).[1] The Manzhou Yuanliu Kao also bolstered Qianlong's conception of the Manchu people as a wu, or martial race.[2]

Researches on Manchu Origins
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese滿洲源流考
Simplified Chinese满洲源流考
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠮᠠᠨᠵᠢᠢᠨ
ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠯ
ᠦᠦᠰᠯᠢᠢᠨ
ᠲᠠᠯᠠᠠᠷᠺᠬᠢ
ᠰᠦᠳᠠᠯᠭᠠᠠ
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠᠰᠠᡳ
ᡩᠠ
ᠰᡝᡴᡳᠶᡝᠨ ‍‍ᡳ
ᡴᡳᠮᠴᡳᠨ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ
AbkaiManjusai da sekiyen-i kimqin bithe
MöllendorffManjusai da sekiyen-i kimcin bithe

It consists of 4 parts: Manchu tribes, territory, topography (mountains and rivers), and culture. Pamela Kyle Crossley analyses it as the apex of the Qing Dynasty's attempt at "documentary institutionalisation" of Manchu heritage and from it, Manchu ethnic identity.[3] Researches on Manchu Origins contained a list of corrections of transcribed Jurchen language words found in the History of Jin in Chapter 135, using the Manchu language to correct them, in Chapter 18.[4]

Contents

Manzhou Yuanliu Kao was compiled from the perspective of the Manchu ruling class, breaking away from the historical record of librarians by the Han Chinese-centered view. It is a document that shows the ethnicity that they have had since ancient times, from the Jurchen tribe to the Manchu tribe. The lineages of Jurchen and Manchurians are continued in Buyeo, Goryeo, Samhan, Baekje, Silla, Sushen, Balhae,[5][6] and Jurchen by era. This book reveals the cultural inferiority of the Manchus who destroyed the Ming Dynasty and established the Qing Dynasty. In order to establish their own tradition against the Han Chinese, they synthesized the history of Manchuria and claimed that all the peoples in it were their own history. The intention is to decorate their cultural history by using Korean traditions as well. [7]

References
  1. Smith, Richard (2015). The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 80.
  2. Roy, Kaushik; Lorge, Peter (2014). Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870. Routledge. p. 231.
  3. Crossley, Pamela Kyle (November 1987). "Manzhou yuanliu kao and the Formalization of the Manchu Heritage". Journal of Asian Studies. 46 (4). JSTOR 2057101.
  4. 金史/卷135 滿洲源流考/卷18 Archived 2016-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 孟森. 淸史講義. p. 8.
  6. Huang, P. New Light on the origins of the Manchu. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. p. 239~282.
  7. 이문영 (26 June 2017). 淸 의도 담아낸 만주원류고 일본은 식민사관에 재활용. 매경프리미엄.
  • Huang, Pei (1990). "New Light on The Origins of The Manchus". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 50 (1): 239–282. doi:10.2307/2719229. JSTOR 2719229.
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