The culture of war in China empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty /
What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to identify military power and an accompanying martial ethos as defining characteristics of the high Qing empire. From 1636 t...
| Основен автор: | Waley-Cohen, Joanna. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
I.B. Tauris,
2006.
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| Серия: |
International library of war studies ;
7. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174491 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Culture of war in China. |
| Резюме: |
What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to identify military power and an accompanying martial ethos as defining characteristics of the high Qing empire. From 1636 to 1800, Emperors reinforced massive military expansion with a wideranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. Military prowess and imperial power were linked in the popular imagination though endless repeti. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781429453677 1429453672 1845111591 9781845111595 9780857711861 0857711865 |