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In the Wake of the Mongols - The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 (Hardcover)
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In the Wake of the Mongols - The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted
terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the
population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake
of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese
men and women adapted to these trying circumstances and interacted
with their alien Mongol conquerors to create a drastically new
social order. To construct this story, the book uses a previously
unknown source of inscriptions recorded on stone tablets. Jinping
Wang explores a north China where Mongol patrons, Daoist priests,
Buddhist monks, and sometimes single women-rather than Confucian
gentry-exercised power and shaped events, a portrait that upends
the conventional view of imperial Chinese society. Setting the
stage by portraying the late Jin and closing by tracing the Mongol
period's legacy during the Ming dynasty, she delineates the
changing social dynamics over four centuries in the northern
province of Shanxi, still a poorly understood region.
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