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Description of  The Manchu Language at Court and in the Bureaucracy Under the Qianlong Emperor (Sinica Leidensia, 162)

9004685294 pdf This study of the roles played by the Manchu language in the Qing empire at the height of its power presents a revisionist account of Manchu not as a language in decline, but as extensively and consciously used language.