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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
The Great Enterprise The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in SeventeenthCentury China Author:Frederic Wakeman Jr. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This 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.