The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century ChinaIn classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first 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 a plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.) In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language rel |
Contents
CHAPTER TWO The Chongzhen Court | |
CHAPTER THREE The Manchu Quest for Power | |
CHAPTER FOUR The Fall of Beijing | |
CHAPTER FIVE The Nanjing Loyalist Regime | |
CHAPTER SIX Establishing Qing Rule | |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Fall of Nanjing | |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Jiangnan Resistance Movement | |
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