The Troubled Empire : China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties / Timothy Brook.
Brook, Timothy, author.
2010
DS752.3 .B76 2010eb
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Title The Troubled Empire : China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties / Timothy Brook.
Author Brook, Timothy, author.
ISBN 9780674056206
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056206
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (336 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674056206 doi
Call Number DS752.3 .B76 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 951/.026
Summary "The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders. Against this background-the first coherent ecological history of China in this period-Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world."
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Series History of Imperial China ; 5
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Frontmatter
Contents
Iintroduction
1. Dragon Spotting
2. Scale
3. The Nine Sloughs
4. Khan and Emperor
5. Economy and Ecology
6. Families
7. Beliefs
8. The Business of Things
9. The South China Sea
10. Collapse
Conclusion
Temperature and Precipitation Extremes
The Nine Sloughs
Succession of Emperors
Pronunciation Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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