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Title: The Manchus (The Peoples of Asia) by Pamela Kyle Crossley ISBN: 1-55786-560-4 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Packs a punch
Comment: I read this book after Evelyn Rawski's "The Last Emperors" and it did answer & clarified a lot questions I had with regards to the Manchus and how they were like before entering China proper. The chapter on Nurhachi was good as was the section on the inevitable power struggle between Cixi and Guangxu (my only wish that this was elaborated further).
Crossley's book is highly recommended for both casual & serious historians alike. My suggestion is to read this first before Rawski's "The Last Emperors"
Rating: 5
Summary: Not an academic book
Comment: I visited to pick up the paperback of this book, and saw this perplexing comment below. This book and The Last Emperor are apples and oranges. This is a popular book (I got my original copy from History Book Club) and intended for reader's with a general interest, or maybe beginning historians. The book by Evelyn S. Rawski is an academic title, very thorough and erudite. But also the books are not on the same subject. Rawski is about the Manchu emperors, their courts and palaces. The Manchus is much more general. Please do not get confused into thinking that these two books are on the same subject.
Rating: 5
Summary: There is a more updated book
Comment: I have read a more recent book Evelyn Rawski's "The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions " in which she discusses the context between her book and "The Manchus". The two books are probably quite similar but I think that Rawski's book would contain much more undisclosed material.
I have decided not to change the rating on this book in the interest of fair play.
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Title: The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions by Evelyn S. Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski ISBN: 0520228375 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu ISBN: 0195125045 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $51.95 |
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Title: A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology by Pamela Kyle Crossley ISBN: 0520234243 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture by Charles O. Hucker ISBN: 0804723532 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Manchu: A Textbook for Reading Documents by Gertraude Roth Li ISBN: 0824822064 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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