Manchu
Subtitle: A Textbook for Reading Documents
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng; tut
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780824822064
Subjects: Language for academic purposes; Language readers; Reading skills; Manchu language; East Asian Languages; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Manchu; Language; Textbooks for foreign speakers; General; English
Description: Manchu was the language of a group of people who in the sixteenth century lived to the northeast of China and later became known as Manchus. After establishing a new state in the southern part of Manchuria in the early seventeenth century, they conquered China and ruled as the Qing dynasty until 1911. Millions of Manchu records along with records in Chinese and Mongolian were created during nearly three hundred years in power. Nowaday, with an imperial Manchu court out of the picture, hardly anybody knows the language. With the accessibility of large number of Manchu documents, today scholars study Manchu to understand the documents.