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The Manchu Way The 8 Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China Hardcover - 2001
by Mark C. Elliott
First line
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.
Details
- Title The Manchu Way The 8 Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
- Author Mark C. Elliott
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date March 2001
- ISBN 9780804736060