Hong Ye (History of the Founding of the Qing Dynasty)

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Features: Professor Wakeman's classic work, The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, is a masterfully crafted exploration that focuses on one cycle in the historical succession of Chinese dynasties—the transition from the Ming to the Qing. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and perspective on how one empire ultimately fell into an irreparable predicament while another reconstructed order and rose to power, examining the political, economic, cultural, social, ethnic, and defense contexts. It reveals that the imperial system and order of the Chinese empire inherently contained factors leading to decline, while dynastic succession served as the mechanism and pathway for rebuilding order. The Manchu conquest is viewed as a special driving force in this process of order reconstruction.