The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties
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
Print Book, English, 2010
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010
329 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas, fotografías en blanco y negro ; 25 cm
9780674046023, 9780674072534, 0674046021, 0674072537
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Dragon spotting
Scale
The nine sloughs
Khan and emperor
Economy and ecology
Families
Beliefs
The business of things
The South China Sea
Collapse
Conclusion
Temperature and precipitation extremes
The nine sloughs
Succession of emperors
Pronunciation guide