Images of War: The Cultural Construction of Qing Martial Prowess

by Ma Ya-Chen

An innovative interdisciplinary work that sheds new light on Manchu rule.

The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have long fascinated scholars, with New Qing History models challenging older Sinicization models in recent years. Images of War adds a new dimension to these debates, from an unlikely source: art history. Two seemingly disparate fields of inquiry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981325212X
• ISBN13: 9789813252127
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
• Length: 272 Pages