The Chinese state in Ming society / Timothy Brook.

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Superior document:Critical Asian scholarship
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TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Critical Asian scholarship.
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Physical Description:viii, 248 p. :; ill., maps.
Notes:"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon."--T.p. verso.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Space
  • The spatial organization of subcounty administration
  • The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji
  • Part 2. Fields
  • Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta
  • Growing rice in North Zhili
  • Part 3. Books
  • Building school libraries in the mid-Ming
  • State censorship and the book trade
  • Part 4. Monasteries
  • At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism
  • Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: recording monasteries in North Zhili.