On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing Transition

by Kenneth M. Swope

The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China's long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong (1605-47), a peasant rebel known as the Yellow Tiger. Zhang's systematic reign of terror allegedly resulted in the deaths of at least one-sixth of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803249950
• ISBN13: 9780803249950
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"