Max Oidtmann

Max Oidtmann (or Max Gordon Oidtmann) (born in 1979) is a U.S. historian of Late Imperial China (1368-1912) and Inner Asia (Islamic Central Asia, Tibet, Mongolia, and Manchuria). He also is interested in modern China and the affairs of minority ethnicities in the People’s Republic of China. An assistant professor of history at Georgetown University, he has taught Asian history – as well as specialized courses on the history of China, Islam and Muslims in East Asia, Tibet, and comparative studies of empire and colonialism – at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar, since 2013.

Education

In 2001, he earned a BA degree in history (with concentration in East Asian Studies) at Carleton College.

In 2007, he earned his M.A. degree in East Asian Regional Studies at Harvard University.

In March 2014, he received his Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.^[1]^[2]

Academic position

Since August 2015 he has taught Asian History at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar.^[3]

Fields of research

Max Oidtmann works with historical materials in Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu and Japanese languages.^[1]

He is currently working on two book projects. The first – Forging the Golden Urn: Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, 1792-1911 – is a political history of reincarnation in China from the late 1700s through the present. The second – Between Patron and Priest: Qing Legal Culture and the Creation of A "Tibetan World" in Amdo, 1720-1912 – is a study of the legal culture of Tibet during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).^[4]

Prizes and Awards

In 2007 he was awarded the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for excellence in writing an AM thesis by the Committee on Regional States East Asia at Harvard University.^[5]

In 2012 he was the recipient of the Award for Best Graduate Student Paper given by the Central Eurasian Studies Society for his article To Be ‘One’s Own Master’: The 19th Century Conflict between Qing Colonial Officials and the Monastic Domain of the Cagan Nomun Han Kūtuku.^[6]

Editorship

Since March 2015 he has been Secretary of the Manchu Studies Society.^[7]

Publication List

Predoctoral research

Banquets, Horses, and Blazing-Hot Rebellions: Qing Frontier Administration and the Muslim Rebellions in Taozhou, 1863-1867, Qing Archival Research (History 2848b, Prof. Philip Kuhn), Spring 2005

Ph.D thesis

Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911, Harvard University, 2014, ProQuest (Abstract)

Peer-reviewed articles

Qing Colonial Legal Culture in Amdo Tibet (original title: A Document from the Xunhua Archives, International Society for Chinese Law & History — 中國法律与歷史國際學會, vol. 1, No 1, November 2014
Imperial Legacies and Revolutionary Legends: The Sibe Cavalry Company, the Eastern Turkestan Republic, and Historical Memories in Xinjiang, Saksaha: A Journal of Manchu Studies, vol. 21, 2014, pp. 49–87

Book chapters

(With Yang Hongwei), A Study of Qing Dynasty "Xiejia" Rest Houses in Xunhua Subprefecture, Gansu, in Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Marie-Paule Hille, Bianca Horlemann, Paul K. Nietupski, eds., Lexington Books, 2015, 354 p., pp. 21–46
A Case for Gelukpa Governance: The Historians of Labrang, Amdo, and the Manchu Rulers of China, in Greater Tibet. An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas, P. Christiaan Klieger ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 178 p., pp. 111–148

Conferences and seminars

Qing Post-Pacification Reconstruction: Community Relations in the Sino-Tibetan-Muslim Borderlands, 1820-1880, paper presented at the International Association for Tibetan Studies Conference, University of British Columbia (Canada), August 2010.
The Nineteenth-Century Crisis of the Mongol Banners in Amdo, paper presented at the American Council for Mongolian Studies Conference, Ulanbaatar (Mongolia), June 2011.
The Warring States: Tibetan Buddhists and the Colonial Encounter in Late Qing Amdo, Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Convention, October 2012 (Abstract)
Shamanic Imperialism: The Qianlong Emperor’s Attack on Tibetan Divination Technologies and the Origins of the Golden Urn, paper presented at the American Association of Religion Annual Meeting, November 19, 2012 (Astract)
Muslim Mediators, Tibetan Conflicts: Chinese Muslims and Colonial Legal Culture in Early Modern China, Invited talk, New York University Abu Dhabi, November 18, 2014 (Abstract)
The "Warring States" of Amdo: Qing Jurispractice and the Creation of the "Tibetan World", 1772-1911, paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago on March 26 and 27, 2015 (Abstract) (and also at Collège de France, Paris, on May 22, 2015.^[8]
Politicizing Piety: Qing Legal Culture and its Ramifications for Tibetan Social History, Invited talk, Columbia University Modern China Seminar, September 24, 2015.
The Qing's Last Kūtuktu: Künga Gyeltsen and the Qing's Tibet Policies from the Tongzhi Restoration to 1912, paper presented at the International Manchu Studies Conference, University of Michigan, May 2016
Amdowas Speaking in Code: The Golden Urn and Qing-Geluk Relations in the early 1800s, paper presented at the international conference New Directions in Manchu Studies / Spring 2016 organized by the Center for Chinese Studies at Michigan University (Abstract)
Kökenuur/Qinghai in the 1780s-1820s: A Tripartite Legal Order and the Lay of the Land, paper presented at the May 10, 2016 Inner Asia Law and Society Workshop on "Land Control and Land Use in Historical Perspective"^[9]

Reviews

Review of The Prophet and the Party: Shari’a and Sectarianism in China’s Little Mecca, by Matthew Erie, Dissertation Reviews, October 7, 2014

Reviews of the author's contributions

Review by Wesley Chaney (History Department, Stanford University) of Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, In Dissertation Reviews ("Between Patron and Priest is both an encyclopedic treasure trove of information and an important intervention into scholarly debates in a range of fields — Tibetan history, Qing history, colonial studies, and legal pluralism. Through his use of a range of sources in several different languages, Oidtmann brings a completely new level of depth and detail to discussions of the Tibetan-Qing encounter.")
In an interview published on the China Study Journal website, American tibetologist Robert Barnett claims that "we know vastly more about Tibetan areas during the Qing and Republican periods because of work by Hsiao Ting Lin, Max Oidtmann, Bill Coleman, Scott Relyea and other China scholars."^[10]

References

1 2 Max Gordon Oidtmann.
↑ Max Oidtmann - Assistant Professor of Asian History, qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu.
↑ Muslim Mediators, Tibetan Conflicts: Chinese Muslims and Colonial Legal Culture in Early Modern China (Max Gordon Oidtmann, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University), NYU Abu Dhabi.
↑ Research Seminar, Fall 2014, NYU ABU DHABI.
↑ Fletcher Awards announced, Harvard Gazette, May 30, 2012.
↑ CESS Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, Central Eurasian Studies Society.
↑ Manchu Studies Group.
↑ J. Bourgon, Legalizing space in China – 12th session.
↑ Land Control and Land Use in Historical Perspective.
↑ Studying Tibet Today: a discussion with Robbie Barnett, The China Story Journal (Australian Centre on China in the World), 20 August 2014.

Qing dynasty topics

History	Seven Grievances First Manchu invasion of Korea Second Manchu invasion of Korea Qing conquest of the Ming Battle of Shanhai Pass Great Clearance Revolt of the Three Feudatories Sino-Russian border conflicts Dzungar–Qing War Chinese expedition to Tibet (1720) Chinese Rites controversy Ten Great Campaigns Miao Rebellion (1735–36) Lhasa riot of 1750 Sino-Burmese War (1765–69) Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa Sino-Nepalese War Miao Rebellion (1795–1806) White Lotus Rebellion First Opium War Sino-Sikh War Taiping Rebellion Nian Rebellion Red Turban Rebellion (1854–56) Miao Rebellion (1854–73) Nepalese–Tibetan War Panthay Rebellion Second Opium War Amur Acquisition Self-Strengthening Movement Dungan Revolt (1862–77) Mudan Incident (1871) Tianjin Massacre Margary Affair Northern Chinese Famine Qing reconquest of Xinjiang Sino-French War Sikkim Expedition Jindandao Incident First Sino-Japanese War Gongche Shangshu movement Dungan Revolt (1895–96) Hundred Days' Reform Boxer Rebellion Red Lanterns Eight-Nation Alliance New Policies British expedition to Tibet 1905 Tibetan Rebellion Chinese expedition to Tibet (1910) Railway Protection Movement Xinhai Revolution Wuchang Uprising Xinhai Lhasa turmoil Mongolian Revolution of 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Xinjiang Manchu Restoration

Government	Emperor List Family tree Amban Cup of Solid Gold Deliberative Council Flag of the Qing dynasty Grand Council Great Qing Legal Code Imperial Clan Court Imperial Commissioner Imperial Household Department Lifan Yuan Ministry of Posts and Communications Nine Gates Infantry Commander Provincial governor Provincial military commander Qinding Xianfa Dagang Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty Viceroys Zhili Shaan-Gan Liangjiang Huguang Sichuan Min-Zhe Liangguang Yun-Gui Three Northeast Provinces Zongli Yamen

Military	Military of the Qing dynasty Beiyang Army Chu Army Eight Banners Ever Victorious Army Green Standard Army Huai Army Hushenying Imperial Guards Brigade New Army Peking Field Force Shuishiying Wuwei Corps Xiang Army Manchuria under Qing rule Mongolia under Qing rule Administrative divisions Qing dynasty in Inner Asia Taiwan under Qing rule Provincial Administration Hall Tibet under Qing rule Golden Urn List of imperial residents Xinjiang under Qing rule General of Ili

Palaces & mausoleums	Chengde Mountain Resort Forbidden City Mukden Palace Old Summer Palace Summer Palace Eastern Qing tombs Fuling Tomb Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Western Qing tombs

Society & culture	Booi Aha Changzhou School of Thought Dibao Four Wangs Gujin Tushu Jicheng History of Ming Islam during the Qing dynasty Kangxi Dictionary Kaozheng Literary Inquisition Manchu Han Imperial Feast Peiwen Yunfu Pentaglot Dictionary Qing official headwear Qing poetry Quan Tangshi Queue Researches on Manchu Origins Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor Shamanism in the Qing dynasty Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao

Treaties	Treaty of Kyakhta (1727) Treaty of Nerchinsk Unequal treaty Boxer Protocol Burlingame Treaty Chefoo Convention Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting Tibet Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory Convention of Peking Convention of Tientsin Li–Lobanov Treaty Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking Treaty of Aigun Treaty of the Bogue Treaty of Canton Treaty of Kulja Treaty of Nanking Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881) Treaty of Shimonoseki Treaty of Tarbagatai Treaty of Tientsin Treaty of Wanghia Treaty of Whampoa

Other topics	Aisin Gioro Anti-Qing sentiment Canton System Chuang Guandong Draft History of Qing Imperial hunt of the Qing dynasty Manchu people Names of the Qing dynasty New Qing History Qing conquest theory Timeline of late anti-Qing rebellions Treaty ports Willow Palisade

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