Chinese ways in warfare

Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1974.

Publication Statements

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

Notes

Based largely on essays discussed at a conference sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization and the East Asian Research Center of Harvard University.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 401 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0674125754, 9780674125759
oclc:ocm01009099
LC Classification:V43.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.

Subjects

Actes de congrès Art et science militaires -- Histoire. … China China -- History, Military Chine -- Histoire militaire Conference papers and proceedings History Military art and science Military art and science -- History. --… Military history