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Military culture in imperial China / edited by Nicola Di Cosmo.

Van Pelt Library UA835 .M55 2009
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-
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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