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Author | : Kenneth M. Swope |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134462093 |
Download The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a planned invasion of China. In contrast to conventional explanations for the Ming’s collapse, which focus upon political and socio-economic factors, this book shows how the military collapse of the Ming state was intimately connected to the deterioration of the personal relationship between the Ming throne and the military establishment that had served as the cornerstone of the Ming military renaissance of the previous decades. Moreover, it examines the broader process of the militarization of late Ming society as a whole to arrive at an understanding of how a state with such tremendous military resources and potential could be defeated by numerically and technologically inferior foes. It concludes with a consideration of the fall of the Ming in light of contemporary conflicts and regime changes around the globe, drawing attention to climatological factors and developments outside state control. Utilizing recently released archival materials, this book adds a much needed piece to the puzzle of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in China.
Author | : Daniel R. Faust |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499463499 |
Download The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Coming to power between Mongol and Manchu rule, the Ming Dynasty represented the last ethnic Han dynasty to rule China. Following the Mandate of Heaven, the first Ming emperor launched nearly 300 years of cultural and political transformation. This compelling volume traces the ascendancy, demise, and legacy of the Ming Dynasty, chronicling the development of its governmental structure, its expansion of trade and its economy, its extension and enhancement of the Great Wall of China, and many other achievements. Readers will also learn about the effect of the Little Ice Age and its role in the Ming’s demise.
Author | : Daniel R. Faust |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499463480 |
Download The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Coming to power between Mongol and Manchu rule, the Ming Dynasty represented the last ethnic Han dynasty to rule China. Following the Mandate of Heaven, the first Ming emperor launched nearly 300 years of cultural and political transformation. This compelling volume traces the ascendancy, demise, and legacy of the Ming Dynasty, chronicling the development of its governmental structure, its expansion of trade and its economy, its extension and enhancement of the Great Wall of China, and many other achievements. Readers will also learn about the effect of the Little Ice Age and its role in the Ming’s demise.
Author | : Ray Huang |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300028843 |
Download 1587, a Year of No Significance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Creates a portrait of the world and culture of late imperial China by examining the lives of seven prominent officials and members of the Ming ruling class
Author | : Thomas Lorondes Bullock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Albert Chan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780806117416 |
Download The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the government, economy, social structure, and history of the Ming dynasty, and offers a picture of what life was like in China between 1368 and 1644.
Author | : Jonathan Clements |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0752473824 |
Download Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice.
Author | : Wing-kin Puk |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004306404 |
Download The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the government invited merchants to deliver grain in return for salt certificates with which merchants drew salt as reward. The salt certificate therefore represented a national debt, denominated in salt, the government thereby owed merchants. A speculative market of salt certificates was created in Yangzhou and brought into being powerful financiers in the early 17th century. The government, financially hard pressed, abolished the speculative market of salt certificates by franchising these financiers in return for their hereditary obligation to pay salt certificate surcharge. China was therefore deprived of a possibility to develop a public debt market. This story is a testimony to Fernand Braudel’s argument of the "nondevelopment" of Capitalism in China.
Author | : Wilt L. Idema |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals. The 12 chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years.
Author | : Timothy Brook |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674072537 |
Download The Troubled Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empireÑa millennium and a half in the makingÑwas suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders. Against this backgroundÑthe first coherent ecological history of China in this periodÑTimothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to ChinaÕs incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.