The Manchu Way
Subtitle: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780804746847
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History - General History; History; History: World; China; General; History / General; Asia - General
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.