Title The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series	History of imperial China
	History of imperial China.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index.
Contents	Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors.
Summary	This volume explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period. 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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
	China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
	Civilization, Oriental -- History.
	China -- Civilization -- History.
	China -- Environmental conditions.
	China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644.
	South China Sea -- Commerce -- History.
	Commerce -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
	Commerce -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
	HISTORY -- Medieval.
	Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
	Civilization, Oriental. (OCoLC)fst00863115
	Commerce. (OCoLC)fst00869279
	Commerce -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00869290
	Commerce -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00869311
	Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	Yuan Dynasty (China) (OCoLC)fst01696786
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	South China Sea. (OCoLC)fst01244526
	Yuandynastie. (DE-603)086269275 (DE-588c)4241585-8
	Mingdynastie. (DE-603)08528999X (DE-588c)4101004-8
	China. (DE-603)08501933X (DE-588c)4009937-4
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Brook, Timothy, 1951- Troubled empire. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 9780674046023 (DLC) 2010007195 (OCoLC)456169856
ISBN	9780674056206 (electronic bk.)
	0674056205 (electronic bk.)

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