Late Ming History

9 books

Essays on the Late Ming Dynasty (2 vols.) cover
Rating 4.3
Essays on the Late Ming Dynasty (2 vols.) 计六奇 Zhonghua Book Company · 1984 Essays on the Late Ming Dynasty (Mingji Beilüe) is a twenty-four-juan work by Ji Liuqi (1622–1687), a native of Wuxi in the early Qing. The title's "B…
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Rating 4.0
Stealing the Ming 灰熊猫 Nanhai Publishing Company; Long March Publishing House · 2008 Stealing the Ming is a long historical time-travel novel by the author Hui Xiongmao (pen name "Big Bang" on Qidian), serialized on Qidian.com from May…
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Rating 4.0
Biography of Chongzhen Fan Shuzhi Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Many have written about Chongzhen, but Fan Shuzhi's Biography of Chongzhen is rare in that it "does not reduce him to a stereotype." The book opens wi…
Jade Resonating Among the Pines: A Biography of Wang Shizhen cover
Jade Resonating Among the Pines: A Biography of Wang Shizhen 贾飞 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2025 Wang Shizhen (1526–1590), courtesy name Yuanmei, styled Fengzhou and also Yanzhou Shanren, was a native of Taicang Prefecture in Suzhou during the Min…
The Last Han Emperor: Chongzhen's Defeat (Complete 2-Volume Set) cover
Rating 2.9
The Last Han Emperor: Chongzhen's Defeat (Complete 2-Volume Set) 晏青 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2012 This is a two-volume historical novel by the writer Yan Qing. Having studied the History of Ming for many years, the author takes the Chongzhen Empero…
The Trajectory of the "Petty Men": The "Eunuch Faction" and Late Ming Politics cover
Rating 3.6
The Trajectory of the "Petty Men": The "Eunuch Faction" and Late Ming Politics Yang Zhengwei China Social Sciences Press · 2016 This book is a monograph on late Ming political history, developed by Yang Zhengwei from his doctoral dissertation at Nanjing University. Taking as it…
Human Affairs, How Complete or Lacking—Ah, the Late Ming: Fan Shuzhi Works Series cover
Rating 4.4
Human Affairs, How Complete or Lacking—Ah, the Late Ming: Fan Shuzhi Works Series Fan Shuzhi Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This book brings together thirteen major essays on late Ming history written by the renowned historian Professor Fan Shuzhi over the past decade or so…
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Rating 4.1
A Brief History of the Southern Ming Jian Bozan · 2024 The Southern Ming refers to the several regimes established by Ming imperial clansmen in the south after the fall of Beijing in 1644. The more importa…
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Rating 3.8
The Rise and Fall of Donglin 程万军 China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2022 A country progresses only when its mainstream population remains uncorrupted and enterprising—such people are called "elites" today and "scholar-offic…