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 r...

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.