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Ming China, 1368-1644 - A Concise History of a Resilient Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Ming China, 1368-1644 - A Concise History of a Resilient Empire (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Issues in World and International History
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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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