Tangse is the Manchu name for a shamanic shrine or altar to the spirits.[1]
The tangse was destroyed in 1900 by foreign powers in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising as part of reprisals for the two-month siege of the international Legation Quarter.[2] The shrine was rebuilt inside the palace in 1901 and its former site was used to build the Italian legation.[3] Historian Mark Elliott notes that in today's Beijing, the tangse would have been located on East Chang'an Avenue, "directly opposite the 'modern' wing of the Beijing Hotel."[4]
Notes edit
- ^ Rawski 1998, p. 236.
- ^ Naquin 2000, p. 684, citing L.C. Arlington and William Lewisohn, In Search of Old Peking (Peking: Vetch, 1935), pp. 118-19.
- ^ Naquin 2000, p. 384.
- ^ Elliott 2001, p. 466, note 13.
Works cited edit
- Crossley, Pamela Kyle (1999), A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-21566-4.
- Di Cosmo, Nicola (1999), "Manchu shamanic ceremonies at the Qing court", in McDermott, Joseph P. (ed.) (ed.), State and Court Ritual in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352–98, ISBN 0521621577
{{citation}}:|editor-first=has generic name (help). - Du, Jiaji 杜家驥 (1990), "Cong Qingdai de gongzhong jisi he tangzi jisi kan samanjiao 从清代的宫中祭祀和堂子祭祀看萨满教 ["Perspectives on shamanism from Qing palace and tangse sacrifices"]", Manzu yanjiu 满族研究, 1990 (1): 45–49
{{citation}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|journal=(help). - Elliott, Mark C. (2001), The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804746842.
- Fu, Tongqin (1982), "Qingdai de tangzi 清代的堂子 ["The Qing tangse"]", Ming-Qing guoji xueshu taolunhui lunwenji 明清国际学术讨论会论文集 ["Proceedings of the international scholarly conference on the Ming and Qing"], Tianjin: Tianjin renmin chubanshe, pp. 269–85.
- Naquin, Susan (2000), Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400–1900, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-21991-0.
- Rawski, Evelyn S. (1998), The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-22837-5.