Joanna Waley-Cohen is Professor of History at New York University.
'Joanna Waley-Cohen is one of the foremost military and cultural historians of China. In this collection, she demonstrates convincingly the predominance of military culture under the Manchu Qing dynasty and gives a powerful and vivid description of the implacable will of the great Qing emperors and their supporters. Her rich account should appeal to anyone who wants a new look at imperial Chinese culture.' Peter C. Perdue T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'These carefully researched and broad-ranging studies represent the best research available in a Western language into the religious, social, political, and cultural aspects of war and military culture in eighteenth and nineteenth-century China. Waley Cohen's detailed and insightful narrative offers an original and highly persuasive account of the ways in which military culture shaped many aspects of court and public life. This is a pioneering work of far-reaching implications, and an invaluable addition to our knowledge of Chinese military history.' Nicola Di Cosmo Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies Institute for Advanced StudyBULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES'...the writing is fluid and engaging...Waley-Cohen's contribution has been to turn our attention to the unstudied subject of military culture, and to argue persuasively that the imperial court was pervaded by a "martial ethos" and deeply committed to its values.'-Susan Naquin
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