The troubled empire China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | History of imperial China
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-739 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | De Gruyter Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780674046023 9780674056206 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674056206 |