I. Manchu and Han historical consciousness in flux -- Whose empire shall it be? Manchu figurations of historical process in the early seventeenth century / Mark C. Elliott -- Toward another Tang or Zhou? Views from the central plain in the Shunzhi reign / Roger Des Forges -- II. Temporalities of national subjugation and resistance -- Contesting Chinese time, nationalizing temporal space: temporal inscription in late Chosŏn Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Mongol time enters a Qing world / Johan Elverskog -- III. Alterities in folk culture and the symbolics of calendar time -- The "teachings of the Lord of Heaven" in Fujian: between two worlds and two times / Eugenio Menegon -- "Birthday of the sun": historical memory in southeastern coastal China of the Chongzhen emperor's death / Zhao Shiyu and Du Zhengzhen, trans. Lynn A. Struve