دورية أكاديمية
Running Away from the Palace: Chinese Eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty
| العنوان: | Running Away from the Palace: Chinese Eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty |
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| المؤلفون: | DALE, MELISSA S. |
| المصدر: | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland ; volume 27, issue 1, page 143-164 ; ISSN 0035-869X 2051-2066 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Arts and Humanities, Cultural Studies |
| الوصف: | By exploring cases of runaway eunuchs, this paper aims to contribute to understandings of unfree status during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and more broadly to the reconstruction of the social history of eunuchs. The abundance of cases in the historical record of palace eunuchs running away, often repeatedly, reflects poorly on the imperial court's treatment of its eunuchs and effectiveness at times in controlling its eunuch population. Confessions from captured eunuchs reveal that for many life serving as a palace eunuch proved too restrictive and too oppressive to endure. The repeated flight of eunuchs suggests that for some, the possibility of punishment was preferable to continued service and waiting for an authorised exit from the system due to old age or sickness. As the majority of palace eunuchs were illiterate, cases of runaway eunuchs give voice to eunuchs and reveal: (1) the tensions that characterised labour relations between the imperial household and its eunuch workforce and (2) that eunuch status does not fit neatly into the binary of free or unfree status, but rather is something more complicated that lies on the continuum in between. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s135618631600047x |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1017/s135618631600047xTest https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S135618631600047XTest |
| حقوق: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/termsTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.32E5FF5C |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s135618631600047x |
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