Subject: tennai 'tiger-man' infantry skirmisher
Culture: Sino-Manchurian
Setting: late Qing empire, China 18-19thc
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* Bennett 2018 p33
"These celebrated tiger warriors were often depicted in the thick of action in Qing military art."
"A comprehensive discussion of every subsequent appearance of Tiger Soldiers in the western press over the next century would be a substantial undertaking, though it might make for a fascinating book chapter. What is important to note is that following Alexander, these figures became an increasingly common theme in the western imagination of the Chinese military. While their symbolic meaning would take on a variety of connotations over the years, the basic visual image continued to follow the pattern first laid down by Alexander in the opening years of the 19th century. One wonders if, on some psychological level, the subsequent scorn directed at accounts of the Tiger Soldiers was not overcompensation for the earlier habit of romanticizing every aspect of Chinese life?"
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