Pamela Kyle Crossley- Formulating Identities in Qing China

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Pamela Kyle Crossley is a professor of History at Dartmouth College. She specializes in the history of Qing China. Crossley discusses her book, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. In this book, she argues that identities such as "Chinese" and "Manchu" were fabrications constructed during the Qing dynasty as a means for the emperor to organize the expansionist empire and establish hierarchies of power based on identity.