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Title Chinese ways in warfare / edited by Frank A. Kierman, Jr., and John K. Fairbank ; with contributions by Edward L. Dreyer [and others]
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 401 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Harvard East Asian series ; 74
Harvard East Asian series ; 74.
Contents 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
Analysis China History, Military
Military art and science History China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Military art and science -- China -- History -- Congresses
HISTORY / General.
Military art and science
SUBJECT China -- History, Military -- Congresses
Subject China
China -- History, Military.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Military history
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Kierman, Frank A
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.
Dreyer, Edward L.
LC no. 73080565
ISBN 9780674182059
0674182057