The Ming Dynasty

Its Origins and Evolving Institutions
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-472-03812-1
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 105 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies

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.

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• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Charles O. Hucker was Professor Emeritus of Chinses and of History at the University of Michigan.