| Linda C. Johnson - History - 2011 - 296 pages
Conquest women combined agency and assertiveness drawn from steppe traditions with selected aspects of Chinese culture such as ethics and literacy. Empress Chengtian led Liao ... | |
| Susan Naquin, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski - History - 1987 - 292 pages
During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski ... | |
| James Tong - Social Science - 1992 - 345 pages
A monumental study of collective violence in the premodern world, this book analyzes all instances of rebellion and banditry recorded in 1,097 countries in China during the 277 ... | |
| Timothy Brook - Business & Economics - 1998 - 356 pages
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the centre of the world. The author examines ... | |
| Billy K. L. So - Business & Economics - 2012 - 328 pages
Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy ... | |
| William T. Rowe - History - 2009 - 376 pages
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West ... | |
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