State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572–1644 E-Book

H. Miller

• Herausgeber: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008

Beschreibung

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.