For this assignment I picked one of the sources I used for my Show and Tell project on the Manchu banner system. This was Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labor. On one of the pages, there is a footnote giving more information on Manchu booi and how they were different from aha. Both were servants, but the booi had greater freedom and influence and were used for military service. The source this comes from was Mark C. Elliot’s The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China.
After searching the catalog, we do not have the book in the Trexler Library, either as a physical copy or as an ebook. There are several book reviews that can be accessed through jstor, but nothing else. It does appear to be a source that would be useful for further research into the Eight Banner system, but I would like to actually get my hands on an ebook or physical book to flip through it.
As for other books by the author, I was not able to find any on the Trexler Library website. This definitely could be a useful source if I was able to access the book directly, and if I could see some more work done by the author himself.
Works Consulted:
Moll-Murata, Christine, and Ulrich Theobald. “Military Employment in Qing Dynasty China.” In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 353–92. Amsterdam University Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp6pg.15.
