TY - BOOK AU - Brook,Timothy TI - The Chinese state in Ming society SN - 0415345073 AV - DS753.2 B872 C 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - RoutledgeCurzon KW - China KW - Politics and government KW - 1368-1644 KW - Social conditions KW - 960-1644 N1 - "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; YT2025 M08 ER -