The Taiji government and the rise of the warrior state : : the formation of the Qing imperial constitution / / by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene.

• Superior document: Inner Asia book series ; Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Munkh-Erdene, Lhamsuren,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Inner Asia book series ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Read The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the reverse. It reveals the Qing as a Warrior State, a Manchu-Mongolian aristocratic union and a Buddhist caesaropapist monarchy. In painstaking detail, brushstroke by brushstroke, the author urges you to picture how the Mongolian aristocratic government, the Inner Asian military-oriented numerical divisional system, the technique of conquest rule, and the Mongolian doctrine of a universal Buddhist empire together created the last of the Inner Asian empires that conquered and ruled what is now China.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of Maps and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transcription and Translation -- Introduction -- 1 The Qing Inner Asian Political Order -- 1 The Qing Constitution: The Triumph of the Bureaucratic-Colonial Model -- 2 The Qing Tributary System: Suzerain-Vassal State Relations -- 3 The Manchu Colonialism: Chinese Defensive Empire into Chinese Conquest Empire -- 4 Manchu's Mongolian Social Revolution -- 5 The Chinggisid Taiji Government and Mongolia and the Qing -- 2 Alliance to Coalition -- 1 Pre-1636 Manchu-Mongolian Relations: Alliance to Tutelage? -- 2 Manchu-Mongolian Princely Treaties: Defensive Alliances -- 3 Manchu-Khorchin Engagement and Manchu Dependence on Khorchin -- 4 The Creation of External Mongolia and the Formation of a Multilateral Coalition -- 5 The Coalition, Assembly, Codes, and Leadership -- 3 The Manchu Conquest: Winner Takes All -- 1 Shifting Borders: Qurban Tsönggereg to Shariljitai to Shonkhor -- 2 Changing Stories: Ligdan's Flight or Hong Taiji's Defeat? -- 3 The Demise of the Mongolian Great State and the Rise of the Daiching State -- 4 Ligdan: From Lawful Great Khan to Quixotic Delusional Dreamer -- 5 Charisma: The Very Essence of Inner Asian Politics -- 4 From the Taishi Government to the Taiji Government -- 1 The Mongol Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty -- 2 The Taishi Government and Its Demise -- 3 Dayan Khanid Reign: The Rise of the Taiji Government -- 4 The Taiji Government Structure: A Federal Constitutional Monarchy -- 5 The Taiji Government: A Parliamentary Aristocracy -- 1 The Seven Khoshuus or the Khalkha Tümen -- 2 An Aristocratic Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy -- 3 The Chuulgan: An Aristocratic Parliament -- 4 The Jasag: An Appointed Central Government -- 5 The Khoshuu: Autonomous Lordship and Government Unit -- 6 The Northern Yuan: An Inner Asian Parallel to the Holy Roman Empire -- 6 The Rise and Fall of the Jaisang Government -- 1 The Destruction of the Great State: Contrary-to-Government Deeds -- 2 The Abolishment of Taiji Government: Ligdan's Reform and Princely Revolts -- 3 The Dissolution of Tümen-Khanates -- 4 The Saghang Saga: A Coup and the Demise of the Mongol Empire -- 5 The Proclamation of the Daiching Ulus: A United Manchu-Mongolian State -- 7 Aimag and Pre-Modern Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision -- 1 Bichurin's Foresight: Aimag from Principalities to Tribes to Secondary Tribes -- 2 Aimag and Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision -- 3 Archaeology of Aimag or External Aimag -- 4 The External Aimags: Mongolian Principalities -- 5 The Internal Aimags: Manchu Principalities -- 8 The Daiching Ulus and Mongolia: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation -- 1 Conferral Letter: Covenant as Investiture -- 2 Covenant, Pillars, and Co-Rulers: One Accord, Mutual Reliance, and Tüshiyetü Khan -- 3 The Daiching Ulus: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation -- 4 The Daiching Gurun as Pax Manjurica and Pax Mongolica -- 9 The Mongolian World Order and the Daiching Ulus -- 1 The Chakravartin Monarchy and the Great State of Five Colors and Four Aliens -- 2 The Altanid Redefinition: The Dyarchy of Aristocracy and Theocracy -- 3 For the Sake of the Government and the Faith: Seeking the Qubilaid Legitimacy -- 4 Claiming 'Phags-pa's Seat -- 10 The Rivalry of the Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben -- 1 The Rise of the Döchin and Dörben -- 2 The Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben Hostility -- 3 The Qing and the Khalkha Treaty -- 4 Turmoil in the Döchin and Dörben: Structural Problems within the Regime -- 5 The Khüren Belchir Assembly and Zanabazar's Justice -- 6 The Failure at the Khüren Belchir Assembly -- 7 The Destruction of the Döchin and Dörben -- 11 The Empire of the Two Norms -- 1 The Dalai Lama and the Making of the Manjushri Chakravartin Khan -- 2 The Taiji Government: Mutual Reliance and the Guest State -- 3 The Manjushri Chakravartin Monarch: The Patron and the Protector of the Faith -- 4 Surpassing Qubilai: Consolidation of the Government of the Two Norms -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.