Dardess, John W. [1937- ] - A Ming Society : T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xi,316 pp. Textual maps. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Setting: The Land: Its Settlement, Use & Appreciation; The Pressures of Change: Managing the Local Wealth; The Demography of Family & Class; Patrilineal Groups & Their Transformations; Pathways to Ming Government; T'ai-Ho Literati in the Wider WQorld of Ming China: Colleagues & Protégés: The 15th-Century World of the T'ai-Ho Grand Secretaries; Cutting Loose: The Provocative Style of Yin Chih (1427-1511); Philosophical Factors; Conclusion & Epilogue.