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Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations And Political Power In Late Qing And Early Republican China, 1861-1928 is s book written by Edward J. M. Rhoads, published by University of Washington Press in 2000. Rhoads

The book won the Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China. The University of Washington Press has made it available online for reading and free download: Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations And Political Power In Late Qing And Early Republican China, 1861-1928 as part of the Manifold at the University of Washington project.

Thesis
Rhoads presents evidence that in significant ways, even in the late 19th and early 20s century, Manchus emained an alien, privileged and distinct group. He is among scholars, such as those in New Qing History. who revisionist scholars the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911-12 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. He

Introduction

1 / Separate and Unequal

2 / Cixi and the “Peculiar Institution”

3 / Zaifeng and the “Manchu Ascendency”

4 / The 1911 Revolution

5 / Court and Manchus after 1911

Conclusion

Critical reception
Kent Guy's review article "Who Were the Manchus?" in Journal of Asian Studies compared several studies.

Mark Elliott, the Harvard University scholar of Manchu studies and considered a member of the New Qing History,

The most substantial review appeared in China Review International