The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Pt.1
Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1988
Category : China
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Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1988
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher :
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9781107106444
Author : John W. Dardess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1442204907
This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West, and its story will fascinate all readers interested in global as well as Asian history.
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN :
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Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1978
Category : China
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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher :
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9781107106482
Author : Jun Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135008450
This book is a study of the dual capital system of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644), with a focus on the administrative functions of the auxiliary Southern Capital, Nanjing. It argues that the immense geographical expanse of the Chinese empire and the poor communication infrastructure of pre-modern times necessitated the establishment of an additional capital administration for effective control of the Ming realm. The existence of the Southern Capital, which has been dismissed by scholars as redundant and insignificant, was, the author argues, justified by its ability to assist the primary Northern Capital better control the southern part of the imperial land. The practice of maintaining auxiliary capitals, where the bureaucratic structures of the primary capital were replicated in varying degrees, was a unique and valuable approach to effecting bureaucratic control over vast territory in pre-modern conditions. Nanjing translates into English as "Southern Capital" and Beijing as "Northern Capital".
Author : Francesca Bray
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Historians of Chinese technology have tended to pay little attention to the Ming dynasty, characterizing it as a stagnantperiod unmarked by significant inventions of the kind that in Europe gave rise to the industrial revolution and the modern world. Yet the Ming was a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic vitality and change, and it would be curious if technology had played no part in these changes. This pamphlet approaches the material world of the Ming from a more anthropological perspective than has been conventional among historians of China, emphasizing the role of technologies in social order and identity.
Author : John K. Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1978-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521214476
This is the first of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the decline of the Ch'ing empire. It opens with a survey of the Ch'ing empire in China and Inner Asia at its height, in about 1800. Contributors study the complex interplay of foreign invasion, domestic rebellion and Ch'ing decline and restoration. Special reference is made to the Peking administration, the Canton trade and the early treaty system, the Taiping, Nien and other rebellions, and the dynasty's survival in uneasy cooperation with the British, Russian, French, American and other invaders. Each chapter is written by a specialist from the international community of sinological scholars. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are a bibliographical essays describing the source materials on which each author's account is based.
Author : Frederick W. Mote
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521243322
This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han dynasty. The success of the Chinese in regaining control over their own government is an important event in history, and the Ming dynasty thus has been regarded, both in Ming times and even more so in this century, as an era of Chinese resurgence. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail. Volume 7 will be followed by a topical volume of Ming history (Volume 8) that will offer detailed studies of institutional changes, international relations, social and economic history, and the history of ideas and of religion.