1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Revised)-Fast Shipping

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Title: 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Revised)

Author: Ray Huang

ISBN: 9780300028843

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1982

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: 8.11.1982

Number of Pages: 310

Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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“If you buy only one work on pre-modern Chinese history this year, make it this one.”–W. S. Atwell,
History
Winner of the American Book Award for History In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly unspectacular events of this ordinary year, Ray Huang finds exemplified the roots of China’s perennial inability to adapt to fascinating accounts of the lives of seven prominent officials, he fashions a remarkably vivid portrayal of the court and the ruling class of late imperial China. In revealing the subtle but inexorable forces that brought about the paralysis and final collapse of the Ming dynasty, Huang offers the reader perspective into the problems China has faced through the centuries.