The Chinese state in Ming society
By: Timothy Brook.
Series: Critical Asian scholarship
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: China -- Politics and government -- 1368-1644.; China -- Social conditions -- 960-1644.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Space; title: The spatial organization of subcounty administration; title: The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji; title: Part 2. Fields; title: Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta; title: Growing rice in North Zhili; title: Part 3. Books; title: Building school libraries in the mid-Ming; title: State censorship and the book trade; title: Part 4. Monasteries; title: At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism; title: Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: recording monasteries in North Zhili.