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Dobbelaar, Joeri (2022)

The Trivial and Non-Trivial in the West: The Xinjiang of Qishiyi's (七十一) Xiayu Suotan (遐域琐谈)

Bachelor thesis | Chinastudies (BA)
A close reading of 'Trivial Discussion of Faraway Lands' (Xiayu Suotan 遐域琐谈) from 1777 by the jinshi scholar Qishiyi (七十一). An ethno-geographic document describing the lands of modern Xinjiang and beyond, at the time only recently added to the Chinese Qing empire. I argue that although Qishiyi writes in a private capacity and thus is writing a 'trivial' work, he loans heavily of the formal gazetteer genre.
Xinjiang, Qing Dynasty, Qishiyi, Xiyu, gazetteer, wenjian, jianwen, China, ethnography
Author
Dobbelaar, Joeri
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Supervisors
Weerdt, H.G.D.G. de
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en