The troubled empire
Subtitle: China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties
By: Timothy Brook.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780674046023
Subjects: Despotism -- China -- History; Complexity (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- China -- History; Commerce -- Social aspects -- China -- History; Commerce -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History; China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; China -- Environmental conditions; China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644; South China Sea -- Commerce -- History
Description: Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dragon spotting; title: Scale; title: The nine sloughs; title: Autocracy; title: Economy/ecology; title: Families; title: Beliefs; title: The business of culture; title: The South China Sea; title: Collapse; title: Precipitation and temperature, 1260-1644; title: The nine sloughs of the Yuan and Ming dynasties; title: Succession of emperors, 1271-1644; title: Pronunciation guide.