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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808360003321

Autore

Brook Timothy <1951-, >

Titolo

The Chinese state in Ming society / / Timothy Brook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-28374-1

1-280-24111-X

1-134-28375-X

0-203-31133-7

9786610241118

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Critical Asian scholarship

Disciplina

951/.026

Soggetti

China Politics and government 1368-1644

China Social conditions 960-1644

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Space -- The spatial organization of subcounty administration -- The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji -- Part 2. Fields -- Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta -- Growing rice in North Zhili -- Part 3. Books -- Building school libraries in the mid-Ming -- State censorship and the book trade -- Part 4. Monasteries -- At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism -- Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: recording monasteries in North Zhili.

Sommario/riassunto

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 we