The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, 2-Volume Boxed Set

by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. and 

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520048040
• ISBN13: 9780520048041
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 1142 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.