by Charles Hucker
University of Michigan Press, 1978
eISBN: 978-0-472-90153-1 | Cloth: 978-0-89264-034-8 | Paper: 978-0-472-03812-1
Library of Congress Classification DS753.H829
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.026

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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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