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Autore: |
Brook Timothy <1951-, >
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Titolo: |
The Chinese state in Ming society / / Timothy Brook
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 951/.026 |
Soggetto geografico: | China Politics and government 1368-1644 |
China Social conditions 960-1644 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Chinese state in Ming society ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-24111-X |
1-134-28375-X | |
0-203-31133-7 | |
9786610241118 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451628803321 |
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