The Manchu Way
Subtitle: The 8 Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780804736060
Subjects: History - General History; Ethnic identity; China - History; Ethnic Sociology; Manchus; History: World; History; 18th century; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; China; Ethnic studies; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Asia - China; Ethnic Studies - General; 17th century
First sentence: The Eight Banners, "the most famous of all Manchu institutions," began as an umbrella organization overseeing the mobilization of Qing military forces and the management of the many different populations associated with those forces in the forty-odd years leading up to the 1644 Qing conquest.