The Tatar whirlwind 9781891640469

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$39.95 By the early seventeenth century the Tokugawa shogunate had achieved supremacy over nearly all its oppo­ nents throughout the islands of Japan. Meanwhile, the great Ming dynasty of China, which came to power in

1368,

was on its last legs.

Corruption was rampant, extravagant expenditures emptied state coffers, while rural poverty and banditry were destroying the fabric of life in North China. Beyond the Great Wall, the nomadic Jurchens were beginning to cause the Ming government trou­ ble. Yet the very idea that these "bar­ barians" might someday invade and conquer China scarcely crossed the mind of any but a thoughtful few. Across this stage of international conflict and intrigue wanders a com­ pletely unlikely couple, the Jurchen princess Abiya, shipwrecked on the island of Hirado, and the minor samurai Katsura Shosuke, tasked with returning her to her North China homeland. Neither has any inkling that they will soon become caught up in events that will shape the history of East Asia, and will bear witness to the birth of two remarkable and enduring regimes. The Manchus will rule over China until the imperial system is over­ thrown in

1911,

while the Togukawa

shoguns hold sway over Japan until the Meiji restoration of

1868.

Shiba Ryotaro (1923-1996), studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages and began his career as a journalist. A prolific and popular writer of historical fiction, his many monumental works are widely read, and have spawned lengthy dramatizations on Japanese

TV. This is the fourth of the author's major works to be translated into English, after ThP Last Shogun:

The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories, and Kukai the Universal: Scenes from his

Joshua

A.

Fogel

Life.

received his Ph.D.

from Columbia University and has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He currently holds the Canada Research Chair in the History of Modern China at York University. A leading scholar in com­ parative East Asian history, his numerous publications include The

Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscover} of China, The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Rl'lations, and Nakae Ushikichi in China: The

Mourning of Spirit. Printed in China

Portrait of the Imperial Bodyguard Zhanyinbao, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), dated 1760. Unidentified artist,

Jacket front shows

China. Hanging scroll; ink and color on sillt; H.

74 1/4 in. (188.6 cm), W. 57 7/16 in. (95.1 cm).

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund

(1986.206).

Gift, 1986 1986,

Photograph copyright

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jacket back shows painting colophon, in Chinese and Manchu.

The mighty cultural and military forces that clashed in North China in the early seventeenth century irrevocably altered the history of East Asia. The Tatar Whirlwind tells the

tale of the fall of the Great Ming, as seen through the eyes of a wandering samurai and the Jurchen princess he is charged with return­ ing to her homeland. This sprawling novel of colorful characters and epic events was penned by Japan's most popular writer of historical fiction and is rendered in a masterful and accu­ rate translation by a noted scholar of East Asian history. ISBN 978-1-891640-46-9

US$39.95

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The Tatar Whirlwind

A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia

by Stiba Ryotaro; translated by Joshua FoQEI By the early se-ienteeoth C811ury the Tolaioa.va shogunate had adiMd S1Jpremacy overrearty all itsOO!)OflEl1tS throoghoot the islands dJapan. Hea!l'lltife, the oreat Mil1Q dynasty dOlina, "'hich came t o JJOl"efin 1368, was on its last legs. Com4llion was

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