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Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.(Book review)
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China Review International
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September 22, 2005| Author:
Woo, Franklin J.
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Peter C. Perdue. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge (MA) and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xx, 725 pp. Hardcover $35.00, ISBN 0-674-01684-X.
The ecology of human movements has shown that one way or another people will acquire the necessities of life and, if necessary, seek greener pastures to find them. For centuries the Middle Kingdom was plagued by marauding nomadic Mongols, who survived and flourished by peri...
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