Weaponizing and Assimilating Southwestern Minorities during the Three Feudatories in Qing China

Please see below for information about the ninth session of the 2024-2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, Germany.

“The Many Uses of `Savages’: Weaponizing and Assimilating Southwestern Minorities during the Three Feudatories Era in China, ca. 1660-1690”
Kenneth Swope 
(Professor, University of Southern Mississippi)

• June 17, 2025, Tuesday, 4:00 PM (Heidelberg, CEST) via ZOOM. 
• The webinar will be recorded, but not the question time.
• If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam[at]hcts.uni-heidelberg.de. 

In this session, Kenneth Swope (Professor, University of Southern Mississippi) will share his thoughts on the southwestern minorities of early Qing China and their utilization in warfare during the period of the Three Feudatories war in the late seventeenth century, which pitted the Manchu-led Qing empire against Han Chinese-led rebels. 

BACKGROUND

For more information about the Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”, please go to our website  https://ambivalentenmity.org/.      

This project has received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).