‘Europeans’ in the Early Qing Empire
"‘Europeans’ in the Early Qing Empire." Central Asiatic Journal 65-1+2 (2022): 217–252.
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This article examines the status of the Xiyang 西洋 people (a people who mostly— but not entirely—came from the region that would be demarcated as modern Europe) in the context of the early Qing Empire, beyond the frameworks of East (China)-West (Europe) or foreign relations. The article focuses on the relationships between the Qing and Johann Adam Schall von Bell during the Shunzhi and the Kangxi periods to query the way in which the Qing Empire’s origin and experience in Inner Asia affected the status of Xiyang people within its territory. The Qing Empire was based in eastern Eurasia, and grew by incorporating peoples who had belonged to various other political entities. The Qing ruler granted them a new identity as ‘Qing people’ through the incorporation process, while at the same time allowing them to preserve their own cultures. The Qing Empire also applied this approach to the Xiyang people.
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