The language and life of Manchu Eight Banners observed in the Manchu textbooks from the Qing dynasty

Conférence de Takashi TAKEKOSHI (Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) dans le cadre du séminaire de mandchou « Introduction à la langue mandchoue par la lecture des textes : le récit de voyage de Tulišen » animé par Catherine Jami (CNRS, CCJ-CECMC), Alice Crowther (doctorante, EPHE) et Hsiang-Tai Kao (doctorant, EHESS).

Date et horaire

• Lundi 17 janvier 2022, de 12h30 à 14h30

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Résumé de la conférence

After the transfer of capital to Beijing by the Qing court (1644), the Manchu Eight Banners who were allowed to live inside of Beijing city very quickly lost their mother tongue ―― Manchu, and shifted to use Chinese language in their everyday life. Many kinds of Manchu-Chinese bilingual conversation books and Manchu grammar books published in the middle or late Qing dynasty represent that young Manchus had to learn Manchu characters, pronunciations and grammars through Chinese as an intermediary language. In this talk, we analyze the purpose and usage of these Manchu textbooks and discuss what was the actual situation of language and life of Manchu Eight Banners lived in Beijing.

Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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