| Description |
x, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-429) and index. |
| Contents |
Law and the military in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- Martial prognostication / Ralph D. Sawyer -- The Western Han army: organization, leadership, and operation / Michael Loewe -- The military culture of later Han / Rafe de Crespigny -- Military aspects of the War of the Eight Princes, 300-307 / Edward L. Dreyer -- Narrative maneuvers: the representation of battle in Tang historical writing / David A. Graff -- Tang military culture and its Inner Asian influences / Jonathan Karam Skaff -- Unsung men of war: acculturated embodiments of the martial ethos in the Song dynasty / Don J. Wyatt -- Wen and wu in elite cultural practices during the late Ming / Kathleen Ryor -- Mengzi's art of war: the Kangxi emperor reforms the Qing military examinations / S.R. Gilbert -- Writing from experience: personal records of war and disorder in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing transition / Grace S. Fong -- Militarization of culture in eighteenth-century China / Joanna Waley-Cohen -- Military finance of the high Qing period: an overview / Yingcong Dai -- Coercion and commerce on two Chinese frontiers / Peter C. Perdue. |
| Summary |
These original essays reexamine the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society. |
| Subject |
Sociology, Military -- China -- History.
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Sociology, Military. |
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China. |
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History. |
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China -- History, Military.
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History, Military. |
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China.
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| Added Author |
Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0674031091 |
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9780674031098 |
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