1587, a year of no significance : [electronic resource] the Ming dynasty in decline / Ray Huang.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1981]

©1981

1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages leaves of plates) : illustrations

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 change. Through 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.

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Published in China under title Wan-li shih-wu nien (The fifteenth year of Wan-li) by Chung-hua shu-chu, Peking.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.

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