Ming China, 1368-1644 : a concise history of a resilient empire /

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Author / Creator:	Dardess, John W., 1937-
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 155 pages) : maps
Language:	English
Series:	Critical issues in history. World and international history Critical issues in world and international history.
Subject:	Emperors -- Asia -- History. Emperors. Kings and rulers. China -- Kings and rulers -- History. China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. Asia. China. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279281

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ISBN:	9781442204928 1442204923
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John 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.
Other form:	Print version: Dardess, John W., 1937- Ming China, 1368-1644. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012 9781442204904

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