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.
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VOLUME 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
