WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/793881726

The culture of war in China empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty

What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to identify military power and an accompanying martial ethos as defining characteristics of the high Qing empire. From 1636 to 1800, Emperors reinforced massive military expansion with a wideranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. Military prowess and imperial power were linked in the popular imagination though endless repeti.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to identify military power and an accompanying martial ethos as defining characteristics of the high Qing empire. From 1636 to 1800, Emperors reinforced massive military expansion with a wideranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. Military prowess and imperial power were linked in the popular imagination though endless repeti."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Military history"@en
  • "Military history"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The Culture of war in China : empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"
  • "The Culture of War in China : empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"
  • "The culture of war in China empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"@en
  • "The culture of war in China empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"
  • "The culture of war in China : empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"@en
  • "The culture of war in China : empire and the military under the Qing Dynasty"
  • "The culture of war in China : empire and the military under the Qing dynasty"

workExample