In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century.
- ISBN10 0520048040
- ISBN13 9780520048041
- Publish Date 22 January 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 October 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1142
- Language English