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

State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572–1644
Author: H. Miller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230617875


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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.