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Uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911).
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James A. Millward is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown Univeristy. Ruth W. Dunnell is James Storer Associate Professor at Kenyon College. Mark C. Elliot is Associate Professor of Inner Asian Studies at Harvard University. Philippe Foret is Assistant Professor and Associate Researcher at the University of Oklahoma and Paris IV Sorbonne University, France.
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A certain early modern monarch, a man of towering ambition, undertook extensive renovations on the rural retreat first used by an earlier monarch as a hunting lodge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old goldsmith, stele inscriptions, banner system, imperial banquets, ceremonial banquet, outer temples, hunting preserve, home ministers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist, Brother Attiret, Panchen Lanza, Han Chinese, Great Wall, Rolpai Dorje, Central Asia, Forbidden City, Hammer Peak, Deborah Sommer, Golden Pavilion, Yang Boda, Dalai Lanza, Imperial Great Yurt, Tarim Basin, Yang Tianzai, Altan Khan, Everlasting Blessings, Inner Mongolia, Lhasa Potala, Sonam Gyatso, Sven Hedin, Chengde Potala New!
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A certain early modern monarch, a man of towering ambition, undertook extensive renovations on the rural retreat first used by an earlier monarch as a hunting lodge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old goldsmith, stele inscriptions, banner system, imperial banquets, ceremonial banquet, outer temples, hunting preserve, home ministers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist, Brother Attiret, Panchen Lanza, Han Chinese, Great Wall, Rolpai Dorje, Central Asia, Forbidden City, Hammer Peak, Deborah Sommer, Golden Pavilion, Yang Boda, Dalai Lanza, Imperial Great Yurt, Tarim Basin, Yang Tianzai, Altan Khan, Everlasting Blessings, Inner Mongolia, Lhasa Potala, Sonam Gyatso, Sven Hedin, Chengde Potala New!
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- Chinese Religious Traditions (Religions of the World Series) by Joseph A. Adler in Front Matter
- Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (Studies of the East Asian Institute) by Peter Zarrow in Front Matter
- Elaborations on Emptiness by Donald S. Lopez Jr. in Front Matter
- Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change by Chu Hsi in Front Matter
- A Dream of Red Mansions by Tsao Hsueh Chin in Back Matter
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- Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture by Jing Wang in Back Matter
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