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Amazon.fr : The Manchus : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | After an account of the early fishing and hunting communities in eastern Asia, the author describes the period of early urbanization, literacy and empire-building in medieval Manchuria, and the constant struggle over five centuries to maintain independence against the great powers of the Mongols, Chinese and Russians. |
| | She investigates the origins and rise of the great leader, Nurgachi, examines the process by which he united the warring villages and shows how he succeeded, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, in founding the first Manchu state. |
| | In 1636, ten years after Nurgachi's death, his descendants declared themselves to be masters of the Qing Empire, and from 1644-1912 the Manchus ruled China as the center of their empire. |
| www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/1557865604 (620 words) |
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