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The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty PDF

177 Pages·2006·2.742 MB·English
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In this book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China, showing how emperors underpinned military expansion with a wide-ranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life.
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