دانلود کتاب The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

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. It begins with the rise of the Manchus along the frontiers of the of the great Ming empire in the 1580s, and it ends with the final consolidation of the Qing dynasty after the suppression of the Three Feudatories a century later. Precisely how a relative handful of barbarian interlopers built the final dynasty of the most populous society on earth is a major theme of his work.The fall of the Ming and the rise of the Qing empires was China's most dramatic dynastic transition, but it was also a conjunction of events that decisively altered China's later direction--even after the impact of the West in the nineteenth century. Chinese still look back today to the colorful but tragic history of the seventeenth century for political inspiration and national identity. Everyone interested in learning about the roots of China's modern culture will want to read this book, as will those who are concerned with the comparative history of empires.