The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship. It argues that, contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society that led to a 'constitution', not periods of fluctuation within the dynasty itself. Brook's outstanding scholarship demonstrates that it was changes in commercial relations and social networks that were actually responsible for the development of a stable society. This imaginative reconsidering of existing scholarship on the history of China will be fascinating reading for scholars and students interested in China's development.
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Timothy Brook is Professor in Faculty of History, University of Toronto.
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veritable records, model letters, subcounty systems, rural covenants, sacrificial corpus, gazetteer cartography, lijia system, ming society, subcounty administrative units, subcounty units, gazetteer compiler, paddy acreage, tax captains, amalgamation order, prefectural gazetteer, county gazetteer, palace editions, prefectural school, baojia system, service levy, inquisition documents, local gazetteers, literary inquisition, ordination certificates, urban wards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Zhili, Yangzi Delta, Luo Hongxian, Single Whip, Ming Code, Lin Zexu, South Zhili, Ding Yuanjian, Ministry of Rites, Great Compendium, New Tales, Two Teachings, Qiu Jun, Administrative Records, Zhang Wenda, Ministry of Works, Nanhua Monastery, Stone Chamber, Fish-Scale Registers, Southern Song, Four Treasuries, Wutai Mountain, Wang Zhen, Guo Zaoqing, Zhu Xi Browse Sample Pages:
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veritable records, model letters, subcounty systems, rural covenants, sacrificial corpus, gazetteer cartography, lijia system, ming society, subcounty administrative units, subcounty units, gazetteer compiler, paddy acreage, tax captains, amalgamation order, prefectural gazetteer, county gazetteer, palace editions, prefectural school, baojia system, service levy, inquisition documents, local gazetteers, literary inquisition, ordination certificates, urban wards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Zhili, Yangzi Delta, Luo Hongxian, Single Whip, Ming Code, Lin Zexu, South Zhili, Ding Yuanjian, Ministry of Rites, Great Compendium, New Tales, Two Teachings, Qiu Jun, Administrative Records, Zhang Wenda, Ministry of Works, Nanhua Monastery, Stone Chamber, Fish-Scale Registers, Southern Song, Four Treasuries, Wutai Mountain, Wang Zhen, Guo Zaoqing, Zhu Xi Browse Sample Pages:
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