Military Culture in Imperial China

Informationen zum Autor Nicola Di Cosmo is Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies. Robin D. S. Yates is Assistant Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University. Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (HUP), awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies. Klappentext These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.

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• Authors: Nicola Di Cosmo
• Assisted by: Nicola Di Cosmo (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2011
• EAN: 9780674060722
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06072-2
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, History, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History