EACS-2016. Book of Abstracts

Section 21 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 233 heavily influenced the coin production. Under the Yuan dynasty new coin types were issued using Phags- pa script in their legend starting under Khubilai khan’s reign. The spread of the square script being a symbol of the Yuan dynasty proved slow. Nonetheless, the use of this script on the coinage circulating all over the Empire made this process to fasten. It helped to propagate the symbol of Mongolian power in remote parts of the country. Qiu Yuanyuan (Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) A Study of “Officially Compiled Genealogy” (guanxiu jiapu) in China from the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century — Focus on“The Archive of Genealogy in the Qing” Key words: Qing Dynasty, Bannermen, Household Registers, Officially Compiled Genealogies, Privately Compiled Genealogies In early Chinese history, the genealogies were compiled by the state, in order to help in the selection of officials and in determining inheritance rights. From the Song Dynasty onwards, the monopolization of compiling the public documents was loosened. Genealogies was no longer used mainly for the selection for government officials, it was served principally for recording and tracing the ancestors and lineage purpose. However, starting from the Qing era, the state resumed large-scale information collection at each household in order to compile census registers and details records pertaining to bannermen. Scholars would label these sorts of records as “Household Registers”, and their purpose was to select officials and determine who would have the inheritance rights. Therefore, it resuscitated the practice of the pre-Song era. Hitherto, there are only scant scholarly studies of the original records of the Qing genelogical records. Apart from filling a historical void of our understanding of the social life in the Qing Dynasty, this article will investigate “Officially Compiled Genealogies” with the local household registers to revisit the State’s historical and demographic policy and shall examine the politics involved in the management of the extensive data of the Eight Banner families and the ordinary Han families. Sam-Sin Fresco (Leiden University) An Interdisciplinary Approach to Nurhaci Coinage Key words: Nurhaci (AD 1593–1626), construction of Manchu identity, coinage, Manchu script, Qing dynasty Issuing state cash is a big statement of identity. Coins were, more than state records, part of people’s daily life. This paper explores the case of Manchu and Chinese coinage during the reign of Nurhaci (AD 1593–1626), the first khan of the Manchus. Every single aspect of the coins — their shape, inscription, cal- ligraphic style, dimensions, metal — provide insights into the state and society of Manchus prior to their conquest of Ming China in 1644. Although coins are always primary historical evidence, they are even more so in our case. Sources from the Nurhaci era are scarce, and therefore contemporary money becomes a precious part of our understanding. Besides, state writings recorded by the Nurhaci office was never part of the contemporary ‘main sequence’ of history that emerges “from a variety of sources, and over time acquiring sufficient mass to generate the heat and light necessary to dominate all other views.” * Nurhaci coinage has been studied by numismatists, historians, and archeologists. This paper will re-evaluate Nurhaci coinage by integrating the results from the above disciplines (as well as linguistics, literary and religious studies) and by adding to the discussion a more Manjuristic, Inner Asian perspective. Should this coin give us new perspectives on our understanding of history, then what conclusions are we to draw from this? * Pamela Kyle Crossley in “The Historical Writing of Qing Imperial Expansion”. In The Oxford History of Historical Writing edited by José Rabasa, Masayuki Sato, Edoardo Tortarolo and Daniel Woolf, p. 43. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011.