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Edward J. M. Rhoads. Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2000. Pp. x, 394. $55.00.

This book by Edward J. M. Rhoads is one of the series entitled Studies on Ethnic Groups in China, which Stevan Harrell edits for the University of Washington Press. The series has already achieved an enviable reputation for fine and innovative scholarship, and this book certainly continues that tradition. It is an excellent study of one aspect of ethnicity in modern Chinese history. 1

Specifically, the book covers policies and attitudes of governments and others toward the Manchus, who dominated the Chinese state and formed the ruling family of China's last dynasty, called the Qing (1644–1911), and relations between the Manchus and the Han majority of China. It makes an important contribution by placing the issue of the Manchus into a wide historical context. Most scholars now consider the Manchus more or less assimilated with the Han in China, and very few Manchus still speak their own language, having adopted Chinese. Rhoads analyzes the modern transformation of the Manchu role in the Chinese state and nation and their relations with the Han Chinese. 2

The book draws on a wide range of sources in Chinese and English. The latter include archival material and observations by Westerners contemporary with the times considered. There are no Manchu-language sources, but there are plenty written by Manchus in Chinese. Rhoads is a model of scholarship in the way he handles his sources carefully and critically. . . .

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