Jin Qicong
Portrait picture of a young Chinese man
Student picture of Jin Qicong, circa 1939
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese金啟孮
Simplified Chinese金启孮
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠠᡳ᠌ᠰᡳᠨ ᡤᡳᠣᡵᠣ ᠴᡳᡯᡠᠩ
RomanizationAisin Gioro Cidzung

Jin Qicong[note 1] or Aisin-Gioro Qicong[note 2] (7 June 1918 – 10 April 2004) was a Chinese historian and linguist of Manchu ethnicity who is known for his studies of the Manchu and Jurchen languages. His works include the first modern dictionary of Jurchen (1984), various books about the Manchu people, and editions of the poetry of his great-great-grandfather Aisin-Gioro Yihui (1799–1838) and his wife Gu Taiqing.

Life

Jin was born in Beijing, China in 1918. His father, Jin Guangping (1899–1966), was a sixth-generation descendant of the Qianlong Emperor's fifth son, Yongqi (Prince Rong).[6] Both his father and his second daughter, Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, are also renowned scholars of Manchu and Jurchen. His eldest daughter, Jin Shi 金適 (Aisin-Gioro Hualiyasun), who is a professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, has also engaged in research into Jurchen.[7]

Jin Guangping entered Peking University to study Chinese Literature in 1939, but the following year went to Japan to study at Tokyo University, where he studied Jin dynasty history under Mikami Tsugio 三上次男 (1907–1987) and Mongolian and Qing Dynasty history under Wada Sei 和田清 (1890–1963). He graduated in 1944, and returned to China where he worked as a teacher at various Beijing middle schools for fourteen years.[8]

In 1958 he joined the staff of the newly founded Inner Mongolia University, where he remained for the next twenty-five years, eventually reaching the position of professor. His main area of research and teaching was Mongolian history, but he also carried out research into the Jurchen and Manchu languages.[8]

In 1983 he took up a post as director of the Liaoning Minorities Research Institute in Shenyang. During this period he founded and edited two journals, Manchu Studies 满族研究 and Reference Materials for Manchu Studies 满族研究参考资料.[8]

Jin retired in 1989, and lived in Beijing until his death of natural causes in 2004.[8]

Jurchen studies

Jin and his father, Jin Guangping, collaborated on a study of the Jurchen language and script, which was first published in 1964,[9] and a revised edition published in 1980.[10] His major contribution to Jurchen studies was a Jurchen-Chinese dictionary that was published in 1984. This was the first modern dictionary of Jurchen,[6] and remained the only dictionary of Jurchen until 2003 when an expanded Jurchen dictionary compiled by Jin and his daughter, Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, was published in Japan.[11]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ The character 孮 in Jin's name is read as cóng according to standard dictionaries, but his name is widely pronounced as Jīn Qǐzōng in academic circles.[1][2][3]
  2. ^ Jin did not use the Manchu family name Aisin Gioro (Chinese: 愛新覺羅 Àixīnjuéluó) as part of his Chinese name,[4] but his Manchu name was "Aisin Gioro Qizong", and he is referred to as such in some sources.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Crossley, Pamela Kyle (1997). The Manchus. Blackwell. p. 203. ISBN 0631235914.
  2. ^ Elliott, Mark C. (2001). The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press. p. 420. ISBN 0804736065.
  3. ^ Kane, Daniel (2009). The Kitan Language and Script. Brill. p. xi. ISBN 978-90-04-16829-9.
  4. ^ Jin, Qizong (2009). 金啟孮談北京的滿族 [Ji Qizong Talks about the Manchus of Beijing]. Zhonghua Shuju. p. 114.
  5. ^ Aisin Gioro, Ulhicun. "AISIN GIORO Ulhicun" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  6. ^ a b Stary, Giovanni (2005). "In Memoriam — Professor Jin Qicong (1918–2004)". Central Asiatic Journal. 49 (2): 320. ISSN 0008-9192.
  7. ^ Li Dezhi 李德志 and Wang Tiejun 王铁军 (16 February 2009). "专家破译黑龙江800年前神秘女真大字石碑" [Experts decipher 800-year-old sacred Tangut writing on a stele in Heilongjiang]. Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012.
  8. ^ a b c d Liaoning Minorities Institute Funeral Committee for Jin Qizong (17 April 2004). "金启孮先生生平" [The life of Mr Jin Qizong]. www.manchus.cn. Archived from the original on 1 April 2012. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
  9. ^ Léon Vandermeersch (1994). Études sinologiques. Presses universitaires de France. p. 311. ISBN 9782130457688.
  10. ^ Crossley, Pamela Kyle (1991). Orphan warriors: three Manchu generations and the end of the Qing world. Princeton University Press. p. 237. ISBN 9780691008776.
  11. ^ Aisin Gioro Ulhicun; Jin Shi (2010). "Manchuria from the Fall of the Yuan to the Rise of the Manchu State (1368-1636)" (PDF). Ritsumeikan Bungaku (601). ISSN 0287-7015.

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