Chinese Culture and the Chinese Military

Informationen zum Autor Lei Haizong (1902–1962) was Professor of History at Tsinghua University and Director of World History at Nankai University. Klappentext The first English translation of Lei Haizong's unique study of the Chinese army, first published in 1940. Zusammenfassung This is the first English translation of Lei Haizong's iconic study of the Chinese army. First published in 1940 in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Lei examines the rise and fall of ideas about militarism in China in a global context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction to the English edition by Xin Fan; Part I. Overview: An Assessment of Traditional Culture: 1. China's military; 2. Chinese clans; 3. China's heads of state; 4. A military culture; 5. The two cycles of Chinese culture; Part II. Overview: Resistance against Japan and State-Building; 6. The place in history of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression; 7. State-building: hope for a third cycle of culture; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Haizong Lei
• Assisted by: George Fleming (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108479189
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47918-9
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: The Cambridge China Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, military history, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Asian History