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The Manchus

Autor Pamela Kyle Crossley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2002
This book relates the history of the Manchus, the rise and fall of their vast empire and their legacy today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631235910
ISBN-10: 0631235914
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

readers, scholars, advanced students of Chinese, Japanese and East Asian history

Notă biografică


Pamela Kyle Crossley's most recent study, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (1999) was awarded the Levenson Prize by the Association for Asian Studies. She is a past fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and presently is Professor of History at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA).

Cuprins

List of Plates. List of Maps.
Preface.
1. The Paradox of the Manchus.
2. Shamans and "Clans": The Origins of the Manchus.
3. The Enigma of Nurgachi.
4. The Qing Expansion.
5. The Guided Age of Qianlong.
6. The Lingering Death of the Empire.
7. Epilogue: The Manchus in the Twentieth Century.
Appendix I. Reign Periods of the Aisin Gioro Rulers.
Appendix II. Cherished Soldiers.
Appendix III. A Glossary of Names and Terms.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index

Descriere

* A history from the origins of the Manchus to the murder of the former last Manchu emperor by the guards of the people who ruled China from 1685 to 1912 * Explains how the Manchus achieved their empire and what the consequences were for themselves and their subjects.