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The Ming Dynasty

Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

By: Charles Hucker

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The Ming Dynasty

Its Origins and Evolving Institutions

By: Charles Hucker

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. [1, 2 ,3]

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University of Michigan Press

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0472901532

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9780472901531

China to 1850

A Short History

By: Charles O. Hucker

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China to 1850

A Short History

By: Charles O. Hucker

By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves together chronologically all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature. The author explains how the Chinese empire emerged in antiquity, how it flourished and declined in successive cycles for thousands of years, and how in the end it found itself unprepared for both the domestic and the external challenges of the modern era. The result is a concise overview that is both absorbing in itself and basic to a more detailed study of China's long and complex evolution. I

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180

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Stanford University Press

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0804709580

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9780804709583

China’s Imperial Past

An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture

By: Charles O. Hucker

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China’s Imperial Past

An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture

By: Charles O. Hucker

A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way

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500

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Stanford University Press

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0804723532

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9780804723534

Two Studies on Ming History

By: Charles O. Hucker

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Two Studies on Ming History

By: Charles O. Hucker

In 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.

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U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

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0472038117

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9780472038114

Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde

By: Charles Le Blanc,Susan Blader

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Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde

By: Charles Le Blanc,Susan Blader

The universe, in Chinese eyes, is a harmonious organism; its pattern of movement is inherent and not imposed from without; and the world of man, being a part of the universe, follows a similar pattern. (Derk Bodde, Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy). The main theme that pervades this Festschrift, written by fellow-scholars and students of Bodde for his seventy-fifth birthday, is that of the proper ordering of the universe as it obtains in the Chinese tradition.

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Hong Kong University Press

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962209189X

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9789622091894

Two Studies on Ming History

By: Charles Hucker

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The Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty

China to 1850

China to 1850

China’s Imperial Past

China’s Imperial Past

Two Studies on Ming History

Two Studies on Ming History

Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

Two Studies on Ming History

Two Studies on Ming History

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