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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute's East Asia Program presents&nbsp\;Nicol
 a Di Cosmo from Princeton University.How a small people of shepherds and h
 unters managed to invade\, conquer and then rule China for over two hundre
 d and fifty years is still a mystery. Much has been said about the fall of
  the Ming dynasty\, but how did the Manchus become a contender (and the fi
 nal winner) in the contest for succession? &nbsp\;Diverging from a traditi
 onal focus on both the Ming crisis and Manchu military prowess\, this talk
  examines interlocking aspects of natural disasters\, trade\, and agricult
 ural development to explain key aspects of the expansion and consolidation
  of the early Manchu state from 1600 to 1620.Nicola Di Cosmo is Henry Luce
  Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced 
 Study (Princeton University). He has a Ph.D. in Uralic and Altaic studies 
 from Indiana University and has held positions at Cambridge\, Harvard and 
 the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). He has published several autho
 red and edited volumes dealing with the history of the relations between C
 hina and Inner Asia from the first millennium BCE to the early modern peri
 od.&nbsp\; His current work focuses on the connections between climate\, e
 nvironment and politics in the history of steppe empires.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Nicola Di Cosmo: Environmental Crisis and Political Economy in the 
 Early Manchu State
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute's East Asia Program 
 presents&nbsp\;Nicola Di Cosmo from Princeton University.</p><p>How a smal
 l people of shepherds and hunters managed to invade\, conquer and then rul
 e China for over two hundred and fifty years is still a mystery. Much has 
 been said about the fall of the Ming dynasty\, but how did the Manchus bec
 ome a contender (and the final winner) in the contest for succession? &nbs
 p\;Diverging from a traditional focus on both the Ming crisis and Manchu m
 ilitary prowess\, this talk examines interlocking aspects of natural disas
 ters\, trade\, and agricultural development to explain key aspects of the 
 expansion and consolidation of the early Manchu state from 1600 to 1620.</
 p><p>Nicola Di Cosmo is Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Stud
 ies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University). He has a P
 h.D. in Uralic and Altaic studies from Indiana University and has held pos
 itions at Cambridge\, Harvard and the University of Canterbury (New Zealan
 d). He has published several authored and edited volumes dealing with the 
 history of the relations between China and Inner Asia from the first mille
 nnium BCE to the early modern period.&nbsp\; His current work focuses on t
 he connections between climate\, environment and politics in the history o
 f steppe empires.&nbsp\;</p>
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