Download or read book The Great Enterprise written by Frederic E. Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 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. 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.