State Versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572-1644

This book examines the bitter ideological struggle in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.

ISBN 0230611346   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780230611344 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 358 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 13 Jan 2009   Width (mm) 143 Library of Congress 2008017169   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 951.026   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Tables
		Conventions Followed in the Book
Introduction		The Problem of Sovereignty in Traditional China		1
I		Zhang Juzheng, 1572-1582		31
II		The Righteous Circles, 1582-1596		55
III		The Wanli Emperor, 1596-1606		75
IV		The Donglin Faction, 1606-1626		95
V		Wei Zhongxian, 1626-1628		125
VI		The Restoration Society, 1628-1644		139
		Notes		165
		Bibliography		195
		Index		213

"Harry Miller provides an essential and authoritative account of the last quarter of the Ming Dynasty, blending political, social, and intellectual history. Writing with clarity and concision, he touches on a wide range of issues and frequently offers novel interpretations. By bringing together a sequence of political events, and analyzing them from the perspective of factionalism that was informed by philosophical differences, Miller has produced a truly innovative unifying overview of late Ming history."--Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota "Harry Miller has given us a dramatic new way of looking at the late Ming, placing himself in the front rank of a generation of new and innovative scholars such as Nimmick, Robinson, Marme, and Swope. He brings a revisionist view that focuses on the necessity of looking throguh Confucian rhetoric to the vicious power struggles that lay beneath the surface of the ideological battles. This is a tightly argued book with a clear and accessible interpretation."--Murray A. Rubinstein, Baruch College

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