From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national moral rearmament under the Tianqi emperor. While their ...
From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national moral rearmament under the Tianqi emperor. While their ...
This work follows the careers of a number of native sons of T'ai-ho county and their relationship to Ming imperial politics. It details the rise of T'ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture and economy, and follows the literati to positions of prominence in government.
Binding: orig. boards
Publisher: Univ. of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: (1996)
Description: Textual maps. Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xi, 316 pp. Contents: The Setting: The Land: Its Settlement, Use & Appreciation; The Pressures of Change: Managing the Local Wealth; The Demography of Family & Class; Patrilineal Groups & Their Transformations; Pathways to Ming Government; T'ai-Ho Literati in the Wider WQorld of Ming China: Colleagues & Protégés: The 15th-Century World of the T'ai-Ho Grand Secretaries; Cutting Loose: The Provocative Style of Yin Chih (1427-1511); Philosophical Factors; ... read more
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Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics
by
Kai-Wing Chow (Introduction by), On-Cho Ng (Introduction by), John B Henderson (Editor)
