The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472038121)

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]

Author: Charles Hucker
ISBN-10: 0472038125
ISBN-13: 9780472038121
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 105
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d