The Chinese state in Ming society /
Timothy Brook.
- New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
- 248 p. : ill.
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon."--T.p. verso.
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. HKBU library
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China--Politics and government--1368-1644. China--Social conditions--960-1644.