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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
Author Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. (著)
Date1985
Pages1337
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publisher Url https://www.ucpress.edu/
LocationBerkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Note1. 2 volumes (xiv, 1337 pages).

2. Author Affiliation: UC Berkeley, USA.
AbstractIn 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.
Table of contentsVOLUME I
Acknowledgments ix
Ming Reign Eras xi
Qing Reign Eras xii
Chinese Weights and Measures xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter One The Northern Frontier 23
Chapter Two The Chongzhen Court 87
Chapter Three The Manchu Quest for Power 157
Chapter Four The Fall of Beijing 225
Chapter Five The Nanjing Loyalist Regime 319
Chapter Six Establishing Qing Rule 414
Chapter Seven The Fall of Nanjing 509
Chapter Eight The Jiangnan Resistance Movement 591
VOLUME II
Chapter Nine Local Control in North China 681
Chapter Ten "Foolish Stratagems in Critical Times" 717
Chapter Eleven The Final Pacification of the North 784
Chapter Twelve The Dorgon Regency 848
Chapter Thirteen The Shunzhi Court 894
Chapter Fourteen A Certain Kind of Solution 988
Chapter Fifteen From Ming to Qing Loyalism 1074
Appendix A Ministers Who Served Two Dynasties 1129
Appendix B "Twice-Serving Ministers" in 1644 1138
Appendix C Banner Officials in Local Administration 1140
Western-Language Sources 1143
Chinese and Japanese Sources 1189
Index and Glossary 1231
ISBN9780520048041; 0520048040
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