A Ming Society: T’ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries by John W. Dardess (PDF)

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John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T’ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of a large number of native sons and their relationship to Ming imperial politics. Using previously unexplored primary sources, Dardess details the rise and development of T’ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture, and economy. He follows its literati to positions of prominence in imperial government. This concentration on the history of one county over almost three centuries gives rise to an unusually sound and immediate understanding of how Ming society functioned and changed over time.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap “The scholarship is excellent, and the book is a culmination of a massive project of exhaustive research that has occupied Dardess for many years.”—Robert Hymes, author of Ordering the World”An important book, by an important historian. Not only did I gain a remarkable set of insights into Ming political and intellectual history from time invested in these pages, it was a genuine pleasure to read.”—William T. Rowe, author of Hankow From the Back Cover “The scholarship is excellent, and the book is a culmination of a massive project of exhaustive research that has occupied Dardess for many years.” (Robert Hymes, author of Ordering the World) About the Author John W. Dardess is Professor of History at the University of Kansas and author of Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China (1973) and Confucianism and Autocracy: Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty (California, 1983). Read more

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