The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State

The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46169-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1043 g

Reihe: Inner Asia Book Series

Read The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the reverse. It reveals the Qing as a Warrior State, a Manchu-Mongolian aristocratic union and a Buddhist caesaropapist monarchy. In painstaking detail, brushstroke by brushstroke, the author urges you to picture how the Mongolian aristocratic government, the Inner Asian military-oriented numerical divisional system, the technique of conquest rule, and the Mongolian doctrine of a universal Buddhist empire together created the last of the Inner Asian empires that conquered and ruled what is now China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munkh-Erdene, Lhamsuren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Maps and Figures

List of Abbreviations

Note on Transcription and Translation

Introduction

1 The Qing Inner Asian Political Order

1 The Qing Constitution: The Triumph of the Bureaucratic-Colonial Model

2 The Qing Tributary System: Suzerain–Vassal State Relations

3 The Manchu Colonialism: Chinese Defensive Empire into Chinese Conquest Empire

4 Manchu’s Mongolian Social Revolution

5 The Chinggisid Taiji Government and Mongolia and the Qing

2 Alliance to Coalition

1 Pre-1636 Manchu-Mongolian Relations: Alliance to Tutelage?

2 Manchu-Mongolian Princely Treaties: Defensive Alliances

3 Manchu-Khorchin Engagement and Manchu Dependence on Khorchin

4 The Creation of External Mongolia and the Formation of a Multilateral Coalition

5 The Coalition, Assembly, Codes, and Leadership

3 The Manchu Conquest: Winner Takes All

1 Shifting Borders: Qurban Tsönggereg to Shariljitai to Shonkhor

2 Changing Stories: Ligdan’s Flight or Hong Taiji’s Defeat?

3 The Demise of the Mongolian Great State and the Rise of the Daiching State

4 Ligdan: From Lawful Great Khan to Quixotic Delusional Dreamer

5 Charisma: The Very Essence of Inner Asian Politics

4 From the Taishi Government to the Taiji Government

1 The Mongol Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty

2 The Taishi Government and Its Demise

3 Dayan Khanid Reign: The Rise of the Taiji Government

4 The Taiji Government Structure: A Federal Constitutional Monarchy

5 The Taiji Government: A Parliamentary Aristocracy

1 The Seven Khoshuus or the Khalkha Tümen

2 An Aristocratic Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy

3 The Chuulgan: An Aristocratic Parliament

4 The Jasag: An Appointed Central Government

5 The Khoshuu: Autonomous Lordship and Government Unit

6 The Northern Yuan: An Inner Asian Parallel to the Holy Roman Empire

6 The Rise and Fall of the Jaisang Government

1 The Destruction of the Great State: Contrary-to-Government Deeds

2 The Abolishment of Taiji Government: Ligdan’s Reform and Princely Revolts

3 The Dissolution of Tümen-Khanates

4 The Saghang Saga: A Coup and the Demise of the Mongol Empire

5 The Proclamation of the Daiching Ulus: A United Manchu–Mongolian State

7 Aimag and Pre-Modern Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision

1 Bichurin’s Foresight: Aimag from Principalities to Tribes to Secondary Tribes

2 Aimag and Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision

3 Archaeology of Aimag or External Aimag

4 The External Aimags: Mongolian Principalities

5 The Internal Aimags: Manchu Principalities

8 The Daiching Ulus and Mongolia: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation

1 Conferral Letter: Covenant as Investiture

2 Covenant, Pillars, and Co-Rulers: One Accord, Mutual Reliance, and Tüshiyetü Khan

3 The Daiching Ulus: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation

4 The Daiching Gurun as Pax Manjurica and Pax Mongolica

9 The Mongolian World Order and the Daiching Ulus

1 The Chakravartin Monarchy and the Great State of Five Colors and Four Aliens

2 The Altanid Redefinition: The Dyarchy of Aristocracy and Theocracy

3 For the Sake of the Government and the Faith: Seeking the Qubilaid Legitimacy

4 Claiming ’Phags-pa’s Seat

10 The Rivalry of the Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben

1 The Rise of the Döchin and Dörben

2 The Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben Hostility

3 The Qing and the Khalkha Treaty

4 Turmoil in the Döchin and Dörben: Structural Problems within the Regime

5 The Khüren Belchir Assembly and Zanabazar’s Justice

6 The Failure at the Khüren Belchir Assembly

7 The Destruction of the Döchin and Dörben

11 The Empire of the Two Norms

1 The Dalai Lama and the Making of the Manjushri Chakravartin Khan

2 The Taiji Government: Mutual Reliance and the Guest State

3 The Manjushri Chakravartin Monarch: The Patron and the Protector of the Faith

4 Surpassing Qubilai: Consolidation of the Government of the Two Norms

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene, Ph.D. (2004), Hokkaido University, is Professor of History and Anthropology at National University of Mongolia, and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He has published articles on the Inner Asian political order, including “The Rise of the Chinggisid Dynasty: Pre-modern Eurasian Political Order and Culture at a Glance”.