The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644

Author(s)

• Mote, Frederick W.
• Twitchett, Denis Crispin

Bibliographic Information

The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644

edited by Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett

（The Cambridge history of China / general editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, v. 7-8）

Cambridge University Press, 1988-1998

• pt. 1
• pt. 2

Note

Author's order changed in pt. 2

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pt. 1 ISBN 9780521243322

Description

This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and for the Ming courts that survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with the political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research, both in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail.

Table of Contents

• General editor's preface
• List of maps and table
• Preface to volume 7
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Ming weights and measures
• Genealogy of the Ming imperial family
• Ming dynasty emperors
• Introduction Frederick W. Mote
• 1. The rise of the Ming dynasty, 1330-67 Frederick W. Mote
• 2. Military origins of Ming China Edward L. Dreyer
• 3. The Hung-wu reign, 1368-98 John D. Langlois, Jr.
• 4. The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsuan-te reigns, 1399-1435 Hok-Lam Chan
• 5. The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'ien-shun reigns, 1436-64 Denis Twitchett
• 6. The Ch'eng-hua and Hung-chih reigns, 1465-1505 Frederick W. Mote
• 7. The Cheng-te reign, 1506-21 James Geiss
• 8. The Chia-ching reign, 1522-66 James Geiss
• 9. The Lung-ch'ing and Wan-li reigns, 1567-1620 Ray Huang
• 10. The T'ai-ch'ang, T'ien-ch'i, and Ch'ung-chen reigns, 1620-44 William Atwell
• 11. The Southern Ming, 1644-62 Lynn A. Struve
• 12. Historical writing during the Ming Wolfgang Franke
• Bibliographic notes
• Bibliography
• Glossary index.

Volume

pt. 2 ISBN 9780521243339

Description

Volumes seven and eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. These volumes provide the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarising all modern research, volume eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion, incorporating original research on subjects never before described in detail. Although it is written by specialists, this Cambridge History intends to explain and describe the Ming dynasty to general readers who do not have a specialised knowledge of Chinese history, as well as scholars and students. This volume can be utilised as a reference work, or read continuously.

Table of Contents

• Introduction Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett
• 1. Ming government Charles O. Hucker
• 2. Ming fiscal administration Ray Huang
• 3. Ming law John D. Langlois, Jr
• 4. The Ming and Inner Asia Morris Rossabi
• 5. Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming Donald N. Clark
• 6. Ming foreign relations: South-East Asia Wang Gung-wu
• 7. Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514-1662 John E. Wills Jr
• 8. Ming China and the emerging world economy William Atwell
• 9. The socio-economic development of rural China under the Ming Martin Heijdra
• 10. Communications and commerce Timothy Brook
• 11. Confucian learning in late Ming thought Willard Peterson
• 12. Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and of Western ideas into late Ming China Willard Peterson
• 13. Official religion in the Ming Romeyn Taylor
• 14. Ming Buddhism Yu Chun-fang
• 15. Taoism in Ming culture Judith A. Berling.

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Details

• NCID: BA03697382
• ISBN:
  • 0521243327
  • 9780521243339
• LCCN: 76029852
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS735
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : China -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00712300