"The Qing Conquest as 'Just War': Manchu Arguments and European Reception" is the title of this Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture by guest speaker Nicola Di Cosmo, East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study. Wednesday, November 15 at 4:45 p.m. Goldwin Smith Hall 64 in person.

Di Cosmo examines the early justification of the anti-Ming war articulated by the Manchu ruler Nurhaci (Qing Taizu, 1559-1626) and its reception in Europe, in particular in the work of Martino Martini, De Bello Tartarico.  Introduced by Yue (Mara) Du, Department of History, Cornell.

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