Debating war in Chinese history / edited by Peter A. Lorge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lorge, Peter Allan, 1967- editor.

Series:

History of warfare ; v. 83.

History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; volume 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Decision making.

War.

China--History, Military.

China.

History, Military.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese cultures, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what constituted evidence, and involved the practical concerns of policy as well as more general cultural values. The result is a decidedly messy portrait of Chinese decision making over two millennia that is neither distinctly Chinese nor entirely generic. Book jacket.

Contents:

Conquest of China / Peter Lorge

Debates in the field during Bayan's campaigns against Southern Song China, 1274-1276 / David Curtis Wright

As close as lips and teeth : debating the Ming intervention in Korea / Kenneth M. Swope

To war or not to war : decisions for war in late imperial China, 1870s-1900 / David Pong

Debating war in China : the decision to go to war, July-August 1937 / Parks M. Coble.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004223721

900422372X

OCLC:

823294423