The Culture of War in China
Empire and the Military Under the Qing Dynasty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19908484 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Joanna Waley-Cohen |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | CULTURE OF WAR IN CHINA: EMPIRE AND THE MILITARY UNDER THE QING DYNASTY. (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9780755624010 |
| OpenAlex | W4246711619 |
| ISBN | 9780755624010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
What particularly distinguished the Qing from other ruling houses in China's imperial period? In this pathbreaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to identify military power and an accompanying martial ethos as defining characteristics of the high Qing empire. From 1636 to 1800, Emperors reinforced massive military expansion with a wideranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. Military prowess and imperial power were linked in the popular imagination though endless repetition in literature, art and architecture a startlingly modern use of words and images that demonstrates the imperial grasp of culture's potency as a political tool. Overturning the presumption that reads back China's late-nineteenth-century military weakness into the past, Waley-Cohen shows that the Qing strongly emphasized military affairs, which they understood as complementary rather than subordinate to civil matters. Arguing that the militarization of culture that
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |