Second Colloquium on Manchu Documents and Qing History

Day 1. Thursday 5^th November

Key-note Session

Chair: Wu Huiyi 吴蕙仪 (CNRS/CAK)

9.30-10am. Zhuangsheng 庄声 (Kicentai) (Sun Yat-sen University 中山大学): 从科技鸿沟到版图变迁. 俄罗斯东扩与晚清东北领土丧失 [From Technological Gap to Territorial Transformation: Russia’s Eastward Expansion and the Loss of Northeast China in the Late Qing Dynasty]

10-10.30. Catherine Jami (CNRS/CCJ): Using Manchu Sources to Write the History of Qing Science: the Case of Euclidean Geometry.

10.30-10.50. Coffee break

Panel 1: Manchu Sources for Social and Economic History

Chair: Lars Laamann 勞曼 (SOAS)

10.50-11.20. Li Dahai 李大海 (Sun Yat-sen University 中山大学) : 多类型与多语种文献的综合利用：清代鄂尔多斯长城沿线地区农业垦殖史再研究 [A Re-examination of the History of Agricultural Reclamation along the Ordos Great Wall in the Qing Dynasty]

11.20-11.50.Qiu Yuanyuan 邱源媛 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院): 祸兮福兮：从“欠项赔钱”论内务府包衣任官的“潜规则” [« Good Fortune Lies Within Bad, Bad Within Good »: Unwritten rules for bondservants (baoyi 包衣/booi) of the Imperial Household Department serving as officials as seen through the compensation of losses incurred during service]

11.50-12.20.Pan Honggang 潘洪钢 (Hubei University 湖北大学): 档案文献所见的清代天津八旗水师 [The Tianjin Eight Banner Navy as seen from the Qing Archives]

12.10-13.50: Lunch

Panel 2: Institutional Transformations within Qing government – new evidence from the Manchu archives

Chair: Alice Crowther (INALCO/ILARA, EPHE-PSL/CRCAO)

13.50-14.20. Zhao Lingzhi 赵令志 (Central University of Minorities 中央民族大学): 释“塔坦”（tatan) [An Exegesis of tatan]

14.20-14.50. Oyunjargal Ochir (National University of Mongolia). From Conquest to Administration: Qing Frontier Governance of the Uriyanghai after the Dzungar Conquest, 1758–1771

14.50-15.20. Zhang Kang 张闶 (Renmin University人民大学): 清代玉树会盟制度研究 [On the system of ‘chieftain gatherings’ (huimeng 会盟)  in Yushu 玉树 during the Qing dynasty]

15.20-15.40: Coffee break

Panel 3: Sources from European Holdings

Chair: Gu Songjie 顾松洁 (Central University of Minorities 中央民族大学)

15.40-16.10. Lars Laamann 勞曼 (SOAS): The use of Manchu in Qing diplomacy: Tulišen’s expedition to Ayuki Khan (1712–15) and the Jiaqing Emperor’s refutation of Lord Amherst’s mission (1816).

16.10-16.40 Qu Qiang 曲强 (Nankai University 南开大学): 雅林藏品中的大和卓布拉呢敦察合台文政令研究 [A Study of a Chaghatay Decree of the Khwājam Burhān al-Dīn in the Jarring Collection]

16.40-17.10. Alice Crowther (INALCO/ILARA, EPHE-PSL/CRCAO): A Manchu Hagiography of Saint Geneviève of Paris.

17.10-18. Visit to the Manchu collection of the Bibliothèque d’Études chinoises of the Collège de France with Dr. Delphine Spicq (Maître de conférences, Collège de France; Director, Bibliothèque d’Études chinoises, Pôle Mondes asiatiques, Collège de France)

19h. Conference dinner (for speakers and chairs)

Day 2. Friday 6^th November.

9.45-10am: Arrival, coffee/tea.

Panel 1: Qing Multilingualism and Manchu Identity

Chair: Catherine Jami (CNRS/CCJ)

10-10.30. Kao Hsiang-Tai (EHESS/CRLAO): Manchu Phonological Adaptations of Russian and Mongolian in names and terms from Tulišen’s Lakcaha jecen de takūraha babe ejehe bithe /Yiyulu 異域錄

10.30-11. Gregor Weimar (Monumenta Serica): Louis de Poirot’s Manchu Lord’s Prayer in Comparative Perspective

11-11.30. Martin Blahota (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences):  Manchu Identity in Mu Rugai 穆儒丐’s 1923 Novel Beijing北京

11.30-13.15: Lunch

Panel 2: Manchu Philology – From Dictionaries to Linguistics

Chair: Julie Lefort (INALCO/CRLAO)

13.15-13.45. Gu Songjie 顾松洁 (Central University of Minorities 中央民族大学):   A Critical Study of Li Yanji’s 李延基 Qingwen huishu 清文彙書

13.45-14.15. Munkhtsetseg Enkhbat (Institute of Language and Literature, Mongolian Academy of Sciences): Postpositions in Manchu and Mongolian: A Comparative Study

14.15-14.45. Veronika Zikmundová (Charles University, Prague) [to be confirmed]

16-17.30 : Visit to the Manchu collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France with Dr. Romain Lefebvre (Conservateur chargé des collections chinoises, japonaises et coréennes, Service des Manuscrits du monde, BnF).

Site : Salle Françoise Héritier, Collège de France, 52 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine, 75005 Paris

Avec le soutien du CRCAO, du Gis Asie, d’Ilara (Institut des langues rares) et l’EPHE