O Sacred Head, surrounded

O Sacred Head, surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
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The Manchu Way

The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China by Mark Elliott

A study of the practices of the Qing dynasty with regard to the Manchus, as conquerors, and the Han whom they ruled. Not that it was ever that simple. There were Mongols in the Eight Banners system all along, and Chinese bannermen were only briefly dispensed with. (Someone had to wrangle the artillery.)

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back and forth

Revision needs to take in the whole story. Beginning to end. And needs to be fairly quick.

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