The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
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 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.)
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The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
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 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.)
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The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

by Frederic Wakeman Jr.
The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

by Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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Overview

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 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.)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520235182
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/22/1986
Series: Great Enterprise , #1
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 680
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Frederic Wakeman, Jr. is the Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. 

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