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1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline

By Ray Huang

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780300163537
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19149452 bytes)
Pages
280\309
Time added
2023-05-30 00:43:19

Description

In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly unspectacular events of this ordinary year, Ray Huang finds exemplified the roots of China's perennial inability to adapt to change. With fascinating accounts of the lives of seven prominent officials, he fashions a remarkably vivid portrayal of the court and the ruling class of late imperial China. In revealing the subtle but inexorable forces that brought about the paralysis and final collapse of the Ming dynasty, Huang offers the reader perspective into the problems China has faced through the centuries.

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