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On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger : War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition /

"Examination of the social and demographic effects of the Ming-Qing transition on southwest China and the devastation wrought by the warlord Zhang Xianzhong"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swope, Kenneth, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of the Ming-Qing transition
  • Zhang Xianzhong and the Ming-Qing transition
  • The rise of the yellow tiger
  • Establishing the Great Western Kingdom
  • Looting heaven's storehouse
  • Erasing the shame of banditry
  • Allying with the Ming
  • A house divided
  • The annihilation of the Kuidong
  • The rhetoric of catastrophe
  • Appendix 1: Defenders, contenders, and pretenders
  • Appendix 2: Chinese weights and measures
  • Appendix 3: Rebels, rogues, regents, and rascals.