Early Modern Travels of Manchu
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world
Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world''s great powers. Its prominence a...
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world
Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world''s great powers. Its prominence a...
