The Art of Being Governed : : Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China / / Michael Szonyi.
An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the stateHow did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Szonyi explores the myriad ways that families fulfilled...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 8 halftones. 7 line illus. 4 tables. 11 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- Dramatis Familiae
- INTRODUCTION: A Father Loses Three Sons to the Army: Everyday Politics in Ming China
- PART I. IN THE VILLAGE
- CHAPTER 1. A Younger Brother Inherits a Windfall: Conscription, Military Service, and Family Strategies
- CHAPTER 2. A Family Reunion Silences a Bully: New Social Relations between Soldiers and Their Kin
- PART II. IN THE GUARD
- CHAPTER 3. An Officer in Cahoots with Pirates: Coastal Garrisons and Maritime Smuggling
- CHAPTER 4. An Officer Founds a School: New Social Relations in the Guards
- PART III. IN THE MILITARY COLONY
- CHAPTER 5. A Soldier Curses a Clerk: Regulatory Arbitrage Strategies in the Military Colonies
- CHAPTER 6. A Temple with Two Gods: Managing Social Relations between Soldier- Farmers and Local Civilians
- PART IV. AFTER THE MING
- CHAPTER 7. A God Becomes an Ancestor: Post- Ming Legacies of the Military System
- CONCLUSION
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Sources
- Index