Hong Ye: The History of the Founding of the Qing Dynasty

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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Professor historical masterpiece The Great Enterprise: A History of China Under the Qing Dynasty, is ingeniously conceived, taking one cycle in the history of Chinese dynasties—the transition from the Ming to the Qing—as its central theme. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and perspective on how one empire ultimately fell into an irreparable predicament while another rebuilt order and rose to strength, examining the political, economic, cultural, social, ethnic, and national defense contexts. It reveals that the system and order of the Chinese empire naturally contained inherent factors leading to decline, while dynastic succession served as the mechanism and path for rebuilding order. The Manchu conquest is viewed as a special driving force in this process of order reconstruction.