The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

by Charles Hucker
The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

by Charles Hucker

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Overview

In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368-1644), and reasserted the mastery of their national destiny. It was a dramatic era of change, the full significance of which can only be perceived retrospectively. With the establishment of the Ming dynasty, a major historical tension rose into prominence between more absolutist and less absolutist modes of rulership. This produced a distinctive style of rule that modern students have come to call Ming despotism. It proved a capriciously absolutist pattern for Chinese government into our own time. [1, 2,3]

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472038121
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 01/19/2021
Series: Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies
Pages: 105
Sales rank: 859,437
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Charles O. HUCKER was Professor Emeritus of Chinses and of History at the University of Michigan.
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