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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History - Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming (Hardcover)
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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History - Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming (Hardcover)
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The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of
cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent
studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government
remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China
served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further
to argue that China's perennial quest for cultural centrality
resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese
people to retain control over social and economic developments. The
study focuses on two and a half million people in three prefectures
of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the
"central plain"-a common synecdoche for China. The author argues
that this population may have been more representative of the
Chinese people at large than were the residents of more prosperous
regions. Many diverse individuals in northeast Henan invoked
historical models to deal with the present and shape the future.
Though they differed in the lessons they drew, they shared the view
that the Han dynasty was particularly relevant to their own time.
Han and Ming politics were integral parts of a pattern of Chinese
historical development that has lasted to the present.
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