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• Title:Ming China, 1368-1644 : a concise history of a resilient empire / John W. Dardess.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dardess, John W., 1937-2020.
  
• Published/Created:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS753 .D37 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS753 .D37 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
  
• Description:xv, 155 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Critical issues in world and international history.
  
• Summary:This book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. The author offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming dynasty witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781442204904 (cloth : alk. paper)
  1442204907 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9781442204911 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1442204915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9781442204928 (electronic)
  1442204923 (electronic)
  
• Contents:Frontiers
  Emperors
  Governance
  Literati
  Outlaws.