Title 1587, a year of no significance : the Ming dynasty in decline / Ray Huang

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1981] ©1981

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Description xiii, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / L. Carrington Goodrich -- 1. The Wan-li emperor -- 2. Shen Shih-hsing, First Grand-Secretary -- 3. A world without Chang Chü-cheng -- 4. The living ancestor -- 5. Hai Jui, the eccentric model official -- 6. Ch'i Chi-kuang, the lonely general -- 7. Li Chih, a divided conscience -- Appendix A : Audience on February 5, 1590 -- Appendix B : Audience on August 25, 1590 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Analysis China, 1587 Notes Published in China under title Wan-li shih-wu nien (The fifteenth year of Wan-li) by Chung-hua shu-chu, Peking Bibliography Bibliography: pages 261-265 Includes index SUBJECT China -- Court and courtiers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100605 -- History -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006122 China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024072 China -- Kings and rulers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024149 -- History -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006122 China -- Officials and employees http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101065 -- History -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006122 LC no. 80005392 ISBN 0300025181 0300028849 (paperback)

Other Titles Wan li shih wu nien Fifteen eighty seven, a year of no significance

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