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The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China: Volume 1 (Great Enterprise)
The Great Enterprise The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in SeventeenthCentury China Volume 1 - Great Enterprise Author:Frederic Wakeman Jr. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. — This first of a 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. — (This book was originally published as a... more » boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with a plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)« less