Book
The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan frontier: Part III. Records of the Monguor clans : history of the Monguors in Huangchung and the chronicles of the Lu family
American Philosophical Society • 51 (3) • Published In 1961 • Pages: 117
By: Schram, Louis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a historical study of the Monguor clans in Huangchung during the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties (1368-1911), based on the Annals of Hsinging and the Annals of Kansu. Father Schram, 'in order to make the history understandable,' begins his study from Huangchung during the Tang period (620-906). The latter half of this monograph is the history of a Monguor t'u-ssu clan, the most prominent among the clans. This study covers in detail some means used by the Chinese emperors to favorably impress the Monguors and to make them loyal defenders of the empire; the pecular mentality of the Monguor t'u-ssu family; and the process of Sinicization of the Monguors. The author introduces the different ethnic and tribal elements which constitute the Huangchung population without presenting a working definition of Monguors in Huangchung. This may cause difficulty and confusion for the reader. Although most of the data in this monograph pertain to the history of the Monguor and not to contemporary conditions, the material has been indexed in terms of contemporary Monguor society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Monguor
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Hesung C. Koh ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1922
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 620-906; 1368-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Xining Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Louis M. J. Schram
- Huangchung is the historical name for the Xining region of present-day eastern Qinghai Province, lying north and west of the Yellow River, near the border of Gansu Province. Before 1928, Qinghai was part of Gansu Province and known as Kokonor. Historical Gansu Province was divided into Kokonor (West Kansu), Huangchung (Xining region) and East Kansu (Present-day Gansu Province.)
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54006120
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongour (Chinese people)