The Ugly Rules [Chinese]

By 张宏杰

History is continuous, and in the dynastic changes from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty, the basic disk of the power structure, has always maintained a strong inertia. Corruption, precisely, is the entrance to analyze this power structure. This book focuses on the Ming and Qing dynasties, with clear logic and vivid details of Zhu Yuanzhang, Hongli and other people's anti-corruption beginning and end, through the background, course, ending and the impact of the elaboration of the Ming and Qing dynasties, focusing on all kinds of dilemmas deep in the quagmire of corruption. Taking the "bad rules", a corruption phenomenon throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, as an entry point, the book recreates the institutional structure of the empire as well as the ecology of the officialdom at that time, probes into the root causes of the decline of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and puts forward a reflection that transcends the times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7553813222
• ISBN13: 9787553813226
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Yue Lu Shu She