The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1

by Frederick W. Mote, Denis Twitchett

Overview

This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han dynasty. The success of the Chinese in regaining control over their own government is an important event in history, and the Ming dynasty thus has been regarded, both in Ming times and even more so in this century, as an era of Chinese resurgence. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail. Volume 7 will be followed by a topical volume of Ming history (Volume 8) that will offer detailed studies of institutional changes, international relations, social and economic history, and the history of ideas and of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521243322
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/26/1988
Series:	The Cambridge History of China , #7
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1004
Product dimensions:	6.57(w) x 9.37(h) x 2.44(d)

Table of Contents

General editor's preface; List of maps and table; Preface to volume 7; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Ming weights and measures; Genealogy of the Ming imperial family; Ming dynasty emperors; Introduction Frederick W. Mote; 1. The rise of the Ming dynasty, 1330–67 Frederick W. Mote; 2. Military origins of Ming China Edward L. Dreyer; 3. The Hung-wu reign, 1368–98 John D. Langlois, Jr.; 4. The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsüan-te reigns, 1399–1435 Hok-Lam Chan; 5. The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'ien-shun reigns, 1436–64 Denis Twitchett; 6. The Ch'eng-hua and Hung-chih reigns, 1465–1505 Frederick W. Mote; 7. The Cheng-te reign, 1506–21 James Geiss; 8. The Chia-ching reign, 1522–66 James Geiss; 9. The Lung-ch'ing and Wan-li reigns, 1567–1620 Ray Huang; 10. The T'ai-ch'ang, T'ien-ch'i, and Ch'ung-chen reigns, 1620–44 William Atwell; 11. The Southern Ming, 1644–62 Lynn A. Struve; 12. Historical writing during the Ming Wolfgang Franke; Bibliographic notes; Bibliography; Glossary index.

Editorial Reviews

"The editors and authors of this monumental work are to be congratulated for a heroic accomplishment." Edward L. Farmer, American Historical Review

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