A01=Joanna Waley-Cohen
Author_Joanna Waley-Cohen
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Product details
- ISBN 9781780766683
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 152 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Was the primary focus of the Qing dynasty really civil rather than military matters? In this ground-breaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China. She argues that the civil and the military were understood as mutually complementary forces. 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. The Culture of War in China is a striking revisionist history that brings new insight into the roots of Chinese nationalism and the modern militarised state.
Joanna Waley-Cohen is Professor of History at New York University.
