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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth M. Swope is a professor of history, director of graduate studies, and senior fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 and The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618–44. Klappentext Kenneth M. Swope is a professor of history! director of graduate studies! and senior fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi.¿He is the author of A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail:¿Ming China and the First Great East Asian War! 1592–1598 and The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty! 1618–44. ¿ Zusammenfassung The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China's long history. On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger is the first Western study to examine in detail the aftermath of the Qing conquest by focusing on the social and demographic effects of the Ming-Qing transition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Editorial Style Chronology of the Ming-Qing Transition 1. Zhang Xianzhong and the Ming-Qing Transition 2. The Rise of the Yellow Tiger 3. Establishing the Great Western Kingdom 4. Looting Heaven’s Storehouse 5. Erasing the Shame of Banditry 6. Allying with the Ming 7. A House Divided 8. The Annihilation of the Kuidong 13 9. The Rhetoric of Catastrophe Appendix 1: Defenders, Contenders, and Pretenders Appendix 2: Chinese Weights and Measures Appendix 3: Rebels, Rogues, Regents, and Rascals Notes Bibliography Index
