The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
This is a thought-provoking work that combines various ‘macrohistorical perspectives’ with ‘microhistorical exploration,’ to use [Peter] Perdue’s words. It goes beyond descriptive and factual presentation to broach and discuss questions of broad importance such as the place of the Eurasian world in Chinese history, the early modern model, Manchu imperial ideology, and the military revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will thus be useful to those interested in seeing the events of the Qing transformation in a global context, both literally and conceptually. (Gang ZhaoChina Review International)