Military culture in imperial China
By: edited by Nicola Di Cosmo.
Contributors: Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9780674031098
Subjects: Sociology, Military -- China -- History; China -- History, Military
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo; title: Law and the military in early China / Robin D.°S. Yates; title: Martial prognostication / Ralph D. Sawyer; title: The Western Han army: organization, leadership, and operation / Michael Loewe; title: The military culture of later Han / Rafe de Crespigny; title: Military aspects of the War of the Eight Princes, 300-307 / Edward L. Dreyer; title: Narrative maneuvers: the representation of battle in Tang historical writing / David A. Graff; title: Tang military culture and its Inner Asian influences / Jonathan Karam Skaff; title: Unsung men of war: acculturated embodiments of the martial ethos in the Song dynasty / Don J. Wyatt; title: Wen and wu in elite cultural practices during the late Ming / Kathleen Ryor; title: Mengzi's art of war: the Kangxi emperor reforms the Qing military examinations / Sam Gilbert; title: Writing from experience: personal records of war and disorder in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing transition / Grace S. Fong; title: Militarization of culture in eighteenth-century China / Joanna Waley-Cohen; title: Military finance of the high Qing period: an overview / Yingcong Dai; title: Coercion and commerce on two Chinese frontiers / Peter C. Perdue.