Debating War in Chinese History : Debating War in Chinese History.
Material type: TextSeries: History of Warfare SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004244795Subject(s): China -- History, Military | War -- Decision makingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Debating War in Chinese History : Debating War in Chinese HistoryDDC classification: 355.00951 LOC classification: DS738 -- .D43 2013ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Peter Lorge -- RIGHTEOUS, FURIOUS, OR ARROGANT? ON CLASSIFICATIONS OF WARFARE IN EARLY CHINESE TEXTS -- Paul van Els -- Debates and Decision-Making: The Battle of the Altai Mountains (Jinweishan 微山) in ad 91 -- Shu-hui Wu -- The Debate Between Wang Hui and Han Anguo: A Case Study of Early Han Military Addresses -- Garret Olberding -- Fighting Against Empire: Resistance to the Later Zhou and Song Conquest of China -- Peter Lorge -- Debates in the Field During Bayan's Campaigns Against Southern Song China, 1274-1276 -- David Curtis Wright -- As Close as Lips and Teeth: Debating the Ming Intervention in Korea -- Kenneth M. Swope -- To War or Not to War: Decisions for War in Late Imperial China, 1870s-1900 -- David Pong* -- Debating War in China: The Decision to Go to War, July-August 1937 -- Parks M. Coble -- INDEX.
This work offers the first sustained discussion of the debates that took place within Chinese governments over whether or not, and why, to wage war.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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