The Chinese state in Ming society

Brook, Timothy, 1951-

The Chinese state in Ming society [electronic resource] / Timothy Brook. - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. - viii, 248 p. : ill., maps. - Critical Asian scholarship . - Critical Asian scholarship. .

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-242) and index.

Part 1. Space -- The spatial organization of subcounty administration -- The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji -- Part 2. Fields -- Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta -- Growing rice in North Zhili -- Part 3. Books -- Building school libraries in the mid-Ming -- State censorship and the book trade -- Part 4. Monasteries -- At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism -- Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: recording monasteries in North Zhili.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.








China--Politics and government--1368-1644.
China--Social conditions--960-1644.


Electronic books.

DS753.2 / .B76 2005

951/.026