| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 1203 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The Cambridge history of China ; volume 8, part 2 |
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Cambridge history of China ; v. 8, pt. 2.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote -- Ming government / Charles O. Hucker -- The Ming fiscal administration / Ray Huang -- Ming law / John D. Langlois, Jr. -- The Ming and Inner Asia / Morris Rossabi -- Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming / Donald N. Clark -- Ming foreign relations: Southeast Asia / Wang Gungwu -- Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514-1662 / John E. Wills, Jr. -- Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470-1650 / William Atwell -- The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming / Martin Heijdra -- Communications and commerce / Timothy Brook -- Confucian learning in late Ming thought / Willard Peterson -- Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China / Willard Peterson -- Official religion in the Ming / Romeyn Taylor -- Ming Buddhism / Yü Chün-fang -- Taoism in Ming culture / Judith A. Berling |
| Summary |
Volumes seven and eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. These volumes provide the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarising all modern research, volume eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion, incorporating original research on subjects never before described in detail. Although it is written by specialists, this Cambridge History intends to explain and describe the Ming dynasty to general readers who do not have a specialised knowledge of Chinese history, as well as scholars and students. This volume can be utilised as a reference work, or read continuously |
| Notes |
General editors : Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 987-1083) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed June 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
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History & Archaeology.
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East Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024072
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Twitchett, Denis Crispin, editor
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Mote, Frederick W., 1922-2005, editor.
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Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor.
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| ISBN |
1139054767 |
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9781139054768 |
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