Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
Subtitle: China in Tigers` Jaws
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: July 28, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780300056792
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; China - History; History - General History; History: World; China; History / General; 1644-1795; History
First sentence: THE TIGER IS ALL but extinct in China today, but in earlier centuries the animal was greatly feared by people who lived in or traveled through sparsely populated areas.