Edward J. M. Rhoads. Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Ning, Chia | Copyright information

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. x, 404 pp. Paperback $27.50, ISBN 0-295-98040-0.

Manchus and Han by Edward J. M. Rhoads is a volume worthy of worldwide celebration. It is the first monograph written in either English or Chinese dedicated to the study of the relationship between the Manchus and the Han Chinese from the middle of the nineteenth century through most of the twentieth (even though the subtitle indicates that t...