英文摘要 |
Huili is located to the south of Sichuan, on “the edge of Hua Xia”. The Qing dynasty bureaucratic gentry did not only participate in the establishment of academic academies, presiding over their education and economy, they also used gazetteers to strengthen the historical memory of politics and culture. This shaped the local “Yi-Xia” concept and cultural identity. Social turmoils in the Xianfeng Period prompted local elites to transform the experience of the collective suffering of the Han people into a tool for a cohesive ethnic identity. These collective memories were written in the local gazetteers and became an important resource for maintaining the Confucian orthodoxy and constructing the “Great Unification” view of history through preaching by the local gentry. After the administration of Huili was returned to officials sent by the Qing, academies had been constructed, and gazetteers restored the historical memory and cultural identity, Huili was finally considered as “inland”. The ups and downs of the JinJiang Academy’s history can be used as an important case to observe the transformation and characteristics of the Qing’s state building. |