Chinese ways in warfare

by Dreyer, Edward L. Fairbank, John King Kierman, Frank A.

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Full title :Chinese ways in warfare / edited by Frank A. Kierman, Jr., and John K. Fairbank ; with contributions by Edward L. Dreyer [and others].

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1974.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:1974.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 401 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674182059, 0674182057
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674182059
oclc:ocn961899314
LC Classification:U43.C6
Dewey Decimal:355/.00951

Introduction: Varieties of the Chinese military experience / John F. Fairbank -- Phases and modes of combat in early China / Frank A. Kierman, Jr. -- The campaigns of Han Wu-ti / Michael Loewe -- Regional defense against the central power : the Huai-hsi Campaign, 815-817 / Charles A. Peterson -- Siege and defense of towns in medieval China / Herbert Franke -- The Poyang Campaign, 1636 : inland naval warfare in the founding of the Ming Dynasty / Edward L. Dreyer -- The Tʻu-mu incident of 1449 / Frederick W. Mote -- Hu Tsung-hsien's campaign against Hsü Hai, 1556.

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Art et science militaires -- Congrès. -… China China -- Congresses. -- History, Milita… Chine -- Congrès. -- Histoire militaire Conference papers and proceedings History HISTORY ; General Military art and science Military art and science -- Congresses.… Military art and science -- History. --… Military history Miscellaneous