The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
A Historical, Cultural, Academic book. Lohan, Wu Bin, c. 1601. National Palace Museum, Taipei. The Troubled Empire is the fifth...
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...
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required reading for my medieval history class. Very interesting, good introduction to China in the Yuan and ming dynasty. Sometimes a bit confusing because Brooke has a tendency to start with some annecdote, some story about someone living in this time and then connects it to a bigger argument. Sometimes that works, sometimes it seems... great combination of recent scholarship with a broad selection of extracts from contemporary commonplace books, court records and household inventories. brook creates a compelling picture of yuan and ming life against the backdrop of recurring ecological catastrophe. Lohan, Wu Bin, c. 1601. National Palace Museum, Taipei. The Troubled Empire is the fifth book in the series on the History of Imperial China. It begins with dragons. Dragons then, as now, have a great symbolic importance in China. They represented cosmic power and divinely sanctioned authority. 'Dragon sightings' were often major events...
