State Versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572-1644

by Harry Miller

Book Overview

This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230611346
• ISBN13: 9780230611344
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.3"