The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Blue paper over boards with navy cloth spine; gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket with mylar cover; 329 pp; illustrated in bw throughout. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Book is otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #184349
ISBN: 9780674046023
This volume 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. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire, a millennium and a half in the making, was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation.
OCLC: 456169856
Price: $60.00