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The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China
Mark C. Elliott - Stanford University Press, 2001
Book description
In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, This book supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation.
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