Troubled Empire China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Name: Troubled Empire China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
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ISBN: 9780674072534

ISBN-10: 0674072537

ISBN-13: 9780674072534

Edition: 2010

Authors: Timothy Brook

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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,…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Timothy Brook is Professor of History and Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia.