The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1: (The Cambridge History of China)

This volume in The Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and for the Ming courts that survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with the political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research, both in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail.

Table of Contents:
General editor's preface; List of maps and table; Preface to volume 7; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Ming weights and measures; Genealogy of the Ming imperial family; Ming dynasty emperors; Introduction Frederick W. Mote; 1. The rise of the Ming dynasty, 1330–67 Frederick W. Mote; 2. Military origins of Ming China Edward L. Dreyer; 3. The Hung-wu reign, 1368–98 John D. Langlois, Jr.; 4. The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsüan-te reigns, 1399–1435 Hok-Lam Chan; 5. The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'ien-shun reigns, 1436–64 Denis Twitchett; 6. The Ch'eng-hua and Hung-chih reigns, 1465–1505 Frederick W. Mote; 7. The Cheng-te reign, 1506–21 James Geiss; 8. The Chia-ching reign, 1522–66 James Geiss; 9. The Lung-ch'ing and Wan-li reigns, 1567–1620 Ray Huang; 10. The T'ai-ch'ang, T'ien-ch'i, and Ch'ung-chen reigns, 1620–44 William Atwell; 11. The Southern Ming, 1644–62 Lynn A. Struve; 12. Historical writing during the Ming Wolfgang Franke; Bibliographic notes; Bibliography; Glossary index.

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Review :
"The editors and authors of this monumental work are to be congratulated for a heroic accomplishment." Edward L. Farmer, American Historical Review