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Author Dardess, John W., 1937-2020

Title A political life in Ming China : a grand secretary and his times / John W. Dardess.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Note Includes index.
Contents A star ascending -- As grand secretary -- The coast -- Chief grand secretary -- Bowing out.
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Summary This fascinating history uncovers the hidden political world of Ming China, exploring how the most powerful man in mid-sixteenth-century China steered the empire through the worst crises it had ever faced. Distinguished scholar John W. Dardess traces how Chief Grand Secretary Xu Jie rose to power and successfully shepherded the Ming empire through the destructive mid-sixteenth-century raids along its continental and maritime frontiers. He also shows how Xu Jie used the new Confucian thinking of the Wang Yangming school to build a political following, suppress bureaucratic corruption, and liberalize bureaucratic procedures. Drawing on years of research, Dardess uses Xu's hundreds of letters to officials and records of talks with the emperors he served to tell this long-neglected story in rich and engrossing detail.
Subject Xu, Jie, 1503-1583.
Xu, Jie, 1503-1583. (OCoLC)fst00250457
Prime ministers -- China -- Biography.
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Prime ministers. (OCoLC)fst01076416
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Chronological Term 1368-1644
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form: Print version: Dardess, John W., 1937- Political life in Ming China 9781442223776 (DLC) 2013014863 (OCoLC)840464969
ISBN 9781442223783 (electronic bk.)
1442223782 (electronic bk.)
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