People
Manchu
Манж
Two travelers wrote about Manchu between 1870 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1870–1882
Among the Mongols
The people of China's ruling Qing dynasty. Their garrisons held the frontier towns of the book, and the Buriat New Testament was printed with adapted Manchu type, the vertical script being close kin to written Mongol.
…The Manchu type does well enough; though very different in appearance from real Mongol type, it is…Listen from here · chapter 5, 14:12Kalgan owes part of its 75,000 of population to its garrison of Manchu soldiers, who, with their wives and children, occupy several permanent encampments of…Listen from here · chapter 15, 16:41 - 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
The people of Manchuria whose Qing dynasty ruled both China and Mongolia until 1911. Mongols held the Manchu emperors as their overlords.
…Kalgan during the years that I have lived in Mongolia — first by the Manchus, then by the various heads of government in China since the proclamation of the Chinese…Listen from here · chapter 1, 13:01…took root as tillers of the soil on the Mongolian border; and the Manchus pressed this advantage by suggesting that they supply officials to keep the Chinese in…Listen from here · chapter 8, 35:34
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