The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China (Great Enterprise)

By Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. and 

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520048040
• ISBN13: 9780520048041
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 1142 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.