On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing Transition Contributor(s): Swope, Kenneth M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803249950 ISBN-13: 9780803249950 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - History | Asia - China - History | Modern - 17th Century |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017030474 |
Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military |
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6" W x 9" (1.80 lbs) 456 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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 population of the entire Sichuan province in just two years. The rich surviving source record, however, indicates that much of the destruction took place well after Zhang's death in 1647 and can be attributed to independent warlords, marauding bandits, the various Ming and Qing armies vying for control of the empire, and natural disasters. |