The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China)
Author: Timothy Brook
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (5 Mar. 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674072537
ISBN-13: 978-0674072534
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm
Book Des cription
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. "The Troubled Empire" explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.
If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yua
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