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200 10$aMing China, 1368-1644$b[electronic resource] $ea concise history of a resilient empire /$fJohn W. Dardess
210   $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (173 p.)
225 1 $aCritical issues in history. World and international history
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-4422-0491-5 
311   $a1-4422-0490-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aFrontiers -- Emperors -- Governance -- Literati -- Outlaws.
330   $aThis engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from o
410  0$aCritical issues in world and international history.
607   $aChina$xHistory$yMing dynasty, 1368-1644
608   $aElectronic books.
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700   $aDardess$b John W.$f1937-$0640435
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