The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China by Mark Elliott

The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China

Mark Elliott

608 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China’s rude northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia’s mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history’s ...

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