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Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies

Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies. Ed. Benjamin Levey, Matthew Mosca. ISSN [en ligne]: 2376-581X.

saksahaSaksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies is the journal of the Manchu Studies Group. Its purpose is to advance and promote informed scholarship on all aspects of Manchu studies, including (but not limited to) history, literature, linguistics, philology, anthropology, religious studies, art history, folklore, material culture, and cultural studies. Since 1996, it has been the only journal specifically devoted to Manchu Studies in a European language.

Editor’s introduction

We are very pleased to re-launch Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies in a new medium. As Stephen Wadley has summarized, Saksaha was launched in 1996 as the only Western-language journal exclusively devoted to the field of Manchu Studies. Since then, global interest in the field has grown rapidly.  This trend has been particularly prominent among historians of the Qing empire, who have increasingly recognized the importance of Manchu-language sources and the complex ways the Manchu identity of the ruling house influenced the course of the empire’s history. Still, scholars in many other fields—linguistics, where Manchu is the most important of the Tungusic languages; literature, with the large corpus of Manchu original compositions and translations from Chinese and other languages; folklore; religious studies; and the history of art, medicine, and science—are increasingly turning to Manchu for new avenues of exploration  [Lire la suite]

Vol. 12 (2014) en ligne

 

Monique Abud

Monique Abud

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

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Monique Abud (22 décembre 2014). Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 8 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqlr


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