History of the Nian Army

Author: Guo Yuming
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Publishing Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book is an academic monograph on the history of the Nian Army, using Marxist historical theory for research. The entire book elaborates on the social background of the Nian Army uprising with extensive materials, detailing the Nian Army's uprising's incubation, outbreak, initial development, its impact on the reactionary ruling forces of the Qing Dynasty, its joint operations with the Taiping Army, its division and mobile warfare, military setbacks, and eventual collapse. It discusses the nature of the Nian Army's struggle, the status and merits and faults of its main leaders, and evaluates the historical significance and class limitations of the Nian Army uprising. This book is a comprehensive summary of research on the Nian Army's history using Marxist historical materialism since the founding of New China. Its richness and thoroughness of materials, comprehensiveness and systematicity of arguments, and objectivity and precision of evaluation surpass previous works.