Table of Contents

List of Maps ... vii
List of Contributors ... ix

Introduction ... 1
Peter Lorge

Righteous, Furious, or Arrogant? On Classifijications of Warfare in Early Chinese Texts ... 13
Paul van Els
Debates and Decision-Making: The Battle of the Altai Mountains (Jinweishan) in AD 91 ... 41
Shu-hui Wu
The Debate Between Wang Hui and Han Anguo: A Case Study of Early Han Military Addresses ...79
Garret Olberding
Fighting Against Empire: Resistance to the Later Zhou and Song Conquest of China ... 107
Peter Lorge
Debates in the Field During Bayan’s Campaigns Against Southern Song China, 1274–1276 ... 141
David Curtis Wright
As Close as Lips and Teeth: Debating the Ming Intervention in Korea ...163
Kenneth M. Swope
To War or Not to War: Decisions for War in Late Imperial China, 1870s–1900...191
David Pong
Debating War in China: The Decision to Go to War, July-August 1937 ... . 237
Parks M. Coble

Index ... . . 257

About the Author

Peter Lorge, Ph.D. (1996) in Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He has published extensively on Chinese military history, military thought, gunpowder and martial arts.