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

Mark C. Elliott

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

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Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 200 r by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper. Frontispiece. Portrait of Imperial Guard Uksiltu (see Note on the Frontispiece, page 373)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Elliott, Mark C. The Manchu way ; the eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China I Mark C. Elliott. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-8047-3606-5 (alk. paper) : ISBN o-8047-4684-2 (pbk: alk. paper) I. Manchus-Ethnic identity-History-r7th century. 2. Manchus-Ethnic identity-History-r8th century. I. Title: Eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China. II. Title. DS73I.M35 E55 200! 95I.004'94I-dC2I Original Printing 20or

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