LEADER 03261nam 22004333a 450 001 9910976783003321 005 20250203232507.0 010 $a9780892640126 010 $a089264012X 010 $a9780472901524 010 $a0472901524 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.19919 035 $a(CKB)37387446400041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)fe0352ca-e929-4671-a6b3-ff413074d285 035 $a(OCoLC)1229668288 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937387446400041 100 $a20250203i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aTwo Studies on Ming History$fCharles O. Hucker 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 330 $aIn the first study of Two Studies on Ming History , Charles O. Hucker presents an account of a military campaign that provides insight into the nature of civil officials' authority, decision-making, and relationship with the Ming court. In the spring and summer of 1556, a Chinese renegade named Hsü Hai led an invading group of Japanese and Chinese soldiers on a plundering foray through the northeastern sector of Chekiang province. Opposing them was a military establishment that for years past had been battered by coastal raiders, now under the control of an ambitious and clever official named Hu Tsung-hsien. The campaign was not one of the most consequential in China's military history, even during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). But it was famous and well reported in its time, and it illustrates some of the unusual ways in which the Chinese of the imperial age coped with the often unusual military problems they faced. In the second part of Two Studies, Hucker presents a translation of K'ai-tu ch'uan-hsin, a popular narrative of a spontaneous demonstration in which literati and commoners alike rose up to defend an austere and incorruptible adherent to Confucian morality who had been doomed to die because of his defiance of the ruthless and heterodox clique that had usurped imperial power. In 1626, Chinese political morality was at one of its lowest ebbs. On the throne at Peking was an incompetent twenty-one-year-old emperor who was much too occupied with puttering at carpentry to pay attention to the government. Into the vacuum stepped Wei Chung-hsien, the favorite of the emperor's governess. Wei used brutal terror to make himself undisputed master of the vast bureaucratic mechanism that administered China. One of Wei's many victims was Chou Shun-ch'ang, a member of the official class who was said to have hated evil as a personal enemy. Chou became critical of Wei, an order was put out for Chou's arrest, and a popular uprising occurred in protest. 606 $aSocial Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General 615 7$aSocial Science 615 0$aSocial sciences. 700 $aHucker$b Charles O$0651329 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976783003321 996 $aTwo studies on Ming history$91150960 997 $aUNINA