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A Ming society : Tʻai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries

This work follows the careers of a number of native sons of T'ai-ho county and their relationship to Ming imperial politics. It details the rise of T'ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture and economy, and follows the literati to positions of prominence in government.
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1996
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xi, 316 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780520204256, 0520204255
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