Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
The Great Enterprise
The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 2
658 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
January 1986, Available worldwide
Categories: Asian Studies; Asian History; China
January 1986, Available worldwide
Categories: Asian Studies; Asian History; China
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.)
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.)
Joseph Levenson Prize for best book on Pre-Twentieth Century China, The Association for Asian Studies
Berkeley Book Prize, The Centers for Japanese and Chinese Studies
Berkeley Book Prize, The Centers for Japanese and Chinese Studies
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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 1, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919-1937, by Brian Martin
The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 1, by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.














