The Great Enterprise. Volume 2 : The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China / Frederic Wakeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakeman, Frederic E., author.

Series:

Center for Chinese Studies, Publications ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--17th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1985]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents. VOLUME II

CHAPTER NINE. Local Control in North China

CHAPTER TEN. "Foolish Stratagems in Critical Times"

CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Final Pacification of the North

CHAPTER TWELVE. The Dorgon Regency

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Shunzhi Court

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. From Ming to Qing Loyalism

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

Western-Language Sources

Chinese and Japanese Sources

Index and Glossary

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520340756

0520340752

OCLC:

1153500042