The Manchu Candidate

On this episode of Linguistics Everyday, Ed, Cara, and Drew discuss the Manchu language, the Jurchen people, and a little bit about the History of China. Contact us at @LinguisticsEver or email us at [email protected] 

Some papers:

• Language death and language revivalism The case of Manchu by Daniel Kane

• The Manchu Academy of Beijing by Laura E. Hess

• Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Compositions and Their Verse-Technique by Giovanni Stary

• Some Observations on a Rubbing of a 17th—Century Inscription in Uighur-Mongolian Script with Elements of Manchu Script and Orthography by Hsiao Su-yin

• The Legitimization of the Qing Dynasty by Piero Corradini