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Military culture in imperial China / edited by Nicola Di Cosmo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Military--China--History.
- Sociology, Military.
- History.
- China--History, Military.
- China.
- History, Military.
- Physical Description:
- x, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo
- Law and the military in early China / Robin D.S. Yates
- Martial prognostication / Ralph D. Sawyer
- The Western Han army: organization, leadership, and operation / Michael Loewe
- The military culture of later Han / Rafe de Crespigny
- Military aspects of the War of the Eight Princes, 300-307 / Edward L. Dreyer
- Narrative maneuvers: the representation of battle in Tang historical writing / David A. Graff
- Tang military culture and its Inner Asian influences / Jonathan Karam Skaff
- Unsung men of war: acculturated embodiments of the martial ethos in the Song dynasty / Don J. Wyatt
- Wen and wu in elite cultural practices during the late Ming / Kathleen Ryor
- Mengzi's art of war: the Kangxi emperor reforms the Qing military examinations / S.R. Gilbert
- Writing from experience: personal records of war and disorder in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing transition / Grace S. Fong
- Militarization of culture in eighteenth-century China / Joanna Waley-Cohen
- Military finance of the high Qing period: an overview / Yingcong Dai
- Coercion and commerce on two Chinese frontiers / Peter C. Perdue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-429) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674031091
- 9780674031098
- OCLC:
- 225874251
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