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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349376604
• ISBN13: 9781349376605
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"