State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572-1644

This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.

• | By (Author): H. Miller (Author)
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 13, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0230611346
• | ISBN-13: 9780230611344