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Spymaster

Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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Spymaster

Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of China's Himmler, based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time. In addition to exposing the inner workings of the secret police, whose death squads, kidnappings, torture, and omnipresent surveillance terrorized critics of the Nationalist regime, Dai Li's personal story opens a unique window on the clandestine history of China's Republican period. This study uncovers the origins of the Cold War in the interactions of Chinese and American special services operatives who cooperated with Dai Li in the resistance to the Japanese invasion in the 1930s and who laid the groundwork for an ongoing alliance against the Communists during the revolution that followed in the 1940s. Frederic Wakeman Jr. illustrates how the anti-Communist activities Dai Li led altered the balance of power within the Chinese Communist Party, setting the stage for Mao Zedong's rise to supremacy. He reveals a complex and remarkable personality that masked a dark presence in modern China--one that still pervades the secret services on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Wakeman masterfully illuminates a previously little-understood world as he discloses the details of Chinese secret service trade-craft. Anyone interested in the development of modern espionage will be intrigued by Spymaster, which spells out in detail the ways in which the Chinese used their own traditional methods, in addition to adapting foreign ways, to create a modern intelligence service.

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0520928768

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9780520928763

Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

Frederic Wakeman's scholarship is impeccable and the breadth of learning in this book is astounding. I repeatedly found myself slowing down to savor the material. Many of the essays in this collection are no longer easily accessible, and placing them together in a single volume will be a great benefit to the next generation of students and scholars. "--Joseph W. Esherick, author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising "This book brings together the best of Frederic Wakeman's articles, all of which are beautifully written and represent the remarkable breadth of Wakeman's research. The opportunity to read them together sheds new light on Chinese history and on the thought processes of one of the West's greatest historians."--Madeleine Zelin, Director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University

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0520256050

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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study is a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that twentieth-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government—whether Nationalist or Communist—has prevailed.

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0520918657

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Mandrake Root

By: Frederic Wakeman

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Mandrake Root

By: Frederic Wakeman

This is the story of two journeys. The first is the cruise of the sailing yacht Cybele. The second is the journey into a woman’s past. After ten years of marriage, Roger and Emily Stratton decide on a second honeymoon. He is a writer and has bought a tiny sailing yacht for a Caribbean cruise. A few days out of port they are anchored off an uninhabited island when the scheme begins to rumble around in Roger’s mind: Perhaps, even after ten years of marriage, there is a way, some way, to make his and Emily’s love what he has always dreamed it would be. Three days later they go ashore and Roger broaches his plan to Emily: “Suppose you and I pledge each other to tell the complete and utter truth, including all our past, good, bad or heretofore unspeakable,” he said. “Suppose we spend the rest of this cruise prying and probing into every past act no matter how reprehensible...no matter how hurtful or deadly or disgusting it seems at the time....If we really do a full job, in complete honesty with each other, I believe with all my heart that we can build ourselves the finest love any couple could want.” Emily agrees. She believes her behaviour has been no better or worse than that of any of the other women in her circle who pride themselves on their civilized sophistication. Nor does she have any idea of just how much she has to hide, or of what she will finally be driven to reveal. In her innocence, she adds to Roger’s plan with the suggestion that their confessions will be wonderful material for his next novel. In MANDRAKE ROOT, Frederic Wakeman tells a story which reaches to the heart of many, many marriages. His novel is a mature and painstaking consideration of what went wrong in a marriage and how two people tried to save their failure. “Why anyone would read the Kinsey Report when this is available passes understanding.”—Pasadena Star-News

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787207811

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9781787207813

A Free Agent

By: Frederic Wakeman

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A Free Agent

By: Frederic Wakeman

AN EXCITING, POWERFUL NOVEL ABOUT A DEDICATED UNDERCOVER MAN FOR WHOM THE COLD WAR IS A RED-HOT, EXPLOSIVE REALITY! From New Guinea to Athens to Africa, this sweeping, powerful novel traces the exciting and always dangerous career of a hero of our time. First as a dive-bomber pilot, then as an undercover agent, Mark Marklay daily risks his life for his country. And he freely accepts the blind obedience demanded of him even when it means blotting out private scruples or leaving his beautiful Greek wife in the middle of their honeymoon. But he is forced to re-evaluate his marriage, his life and the entire Cold War struggle when he is betrayed and captured while on a dangerous mission in Africa—and is confronted with evidence that the informer has been his own wife! “...impressive beyond anything Wakeman has done before. It fulfills an obligation to entertain without bypassing the mind or overlooking chances to kick sacred cows when they stray onto the path.”—The New York Times Book Review

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1787207773

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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

Frederic Wakeman's scholarship is impeccable and the breadth of learning in this book is astounding. I repeatedly found myself slowing down to savor the material. Many of the essays in this collection are no longer easily accessible, and placing them together in a single volume will be a great benefit to the next generation of students and scholars. "—Joseph W. Esherick, author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising "This book brings together the best of Frederic Wakeman's articles, all of which are beautifully written and represent the remarkable breadth of Wakeman's research. The opportunity to read them together sheds new light on Chinese history and on the thought processes of one of the West's greatest historians."—Madeleine Zelin, Director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University

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The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking

The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933

By: Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.

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The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking

The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933

By: Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.

Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and the history of deposit insurance. The Canton Guaranty System inspired radical reform in New York in 1829 – the ancestor of all modern deposit insurance. Yet it was never the success imagined, and soon failed. In the Opium War, the Chinese government as implicit guarantor was forced to pay its debts in full on 23 July 1843. The afflictions of the Chinese system, including moral hazard, too big to fail, and unenforced laws, remain familiar today.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004276564

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9789004276567

The Great Enterprise, Volume 1

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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The Great Enterprise, Volume 1

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with a plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)

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0520340744

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The Golden Ghetto

The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784–1844

By: Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

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The Golden Ghetto

The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy, 1784–1844

By: Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139096

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9789888139095

The Great Enterprise

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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The Great Enterprise

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

00 In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century.

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0520048040

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Spymaster

Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

By: Frederic Wakeman

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Spymaster

Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

By: Frederic Wakeman

Wakeman's authoritative biography of the ruthlessly powerful man who led the Chinese Secret Service during the violent and tumultuous period after the fall of the Imperial system.

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0520234073

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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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Telling Chinese History

A Selection of Essays

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

Frederic Wakeman's scholarship is impeccable and the breadth of learning in this book is astounding. I repeatedly found myself slowing down to savor the material. Many of the essays in this collection are no longer easily accessible, and placing them together in a single volume will be a great benefit to the next generation of students and scholars. "—Joseph W. Esherick, author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising "This book brings together the best of Frederic Wakeman's articles, all of which are beautifully written and represent the remarkable breadth of Wakeman's research. The opportunity to read them together sheds new light on Chinese history and on the thought processes of one of the West's greatest historians."—Madeleine Zelin, Director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University

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Perspectives on Modern China

Four Anniversaries

By: Kenneth Lieberthal,Joyce Kallgren,Roderick MacFarquhar,Frederic Wakeman

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Perspectives on Modern China

Four Anniversaries

By: Kenneth Lieberthal,Joyce Kallgren,Roderick MacFarquhar,Frederic Wakeman

The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese society, economy, polity, and sense of place in the world in the 1980s, a time when China was making rapid strides toward becoming more integrated with the outside world. With contributions by distinguished scholars in the field, the four anniversaries considered are the High Qing, the May Fourth Movement, forty years of communism in China, and ten years of the Deng era.

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Routledge

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1315288753

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9781315288758

Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

By: Frederic William Bailey

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Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800

By: Frederic William Bailey

An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806300078

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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

By: Frederic Wakeman

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Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937

By: Frederic Wakeman

This detailed study of the modern Chinese police force shows how the Nationalist forces under General Chiang Kai-shek set about to return Shanghai to Chinese rule, competing with the consular police forces of France, Japan and the International Settlement.

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0520207610

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The Great Enterprise, Volume 2

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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The Great Enterprise, Volume 2

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)

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The Shanghai Badlands

Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941

By: Frederic E. Wakeman,Frederic Wakeman, Jr

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The Shanghai Badlands

Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941

By: Frederic E. Wakeman,Frederic Wakeman, Jr

Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but warfare was not restricted to that zone. A spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the noses of the authorities. Thanks to the release of secret Chinese police files by the CIA, the inner workings of these terrorist groups and their links to the notorious Green Gang can now be exposed for the first time. In so doing, this book also explores the social history of Shanghai's underworld, the worsening relations between the US and Japan before World War II, and the rivalry between leaders Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei during China's War of Resistance.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521528712

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9780521528719

Fall of Imperial China

By: Frederic Wakeman

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Fall of Imperial China

By: Frederic Wakeman

From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline. From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire.

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0029336805

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History and Will

Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

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History and Will

Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought

By: Frederic E. Wakeman

Monograph on the philosophy and ideology of mao tse-tung on communism in China contrasting contemporary maoism both with classical Chinese historical thinking, and with the western sources of Marxism - includes references.

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0520021045

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History and Will

Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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History and Will

Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

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0520317343

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History and Will

Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought

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The Great Enterprise, Volume 2

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

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Strangers at the Gate

Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

By: Frederic Wakeman

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Strangers at the Gate

Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861

By: Frederic Wakeman

First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.

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0520212398

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The Great Enterprise, Volume 1

The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

By: Frederic Wakeman Jr.

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The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

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