1587 A Year of No Significance The Ming Dynasty in Decline 1st Edition by Ray Huang ISBN 0300163533 9780300163537

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ISBN 10: 0300163533

ISBN 13: 9780300163537 

Author: Ray Huang 

In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly unspectacular events of this ordinary year, Ray Huang finds exemplified the roots of China’s perennial inability to adapt to change. With fascinating accounts of the lives of seven prominent officials, he fashions a remarkably vivid portrayal of the court and the ruling class of late imperial China. In revealing the subtle but inexorable forces that brought about the paralysis and final collapse of the Ming dynasty, Huang offers the reader perspective into the problems China has faced through the centuries.

Table of contents:

1. The Wan-li Emperor

2. Shen Shih-hsing, First Grand-Secretary

3. A World without Chang Chü-cheng

4. The Living Ancestor

5. Hai Jui, the Eccentric Model Official

6. Ch’i Chi-kuang, the Lonely General

7. Li Chih, a Divided Conscience

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