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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge History of China
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Editors' Preface
v
4
General Editors' Preface to Volume 8
ix
8
List of maps, tables, and figures
xvii
2
Acknowledgments
xix
1
Conventions
xx
2
List of abbreviations
xxii
1
Ming weights and measures
xxiii
1
Genealogy of the Ming imperial family
xxiv
1
Ming dynasty emperors
xxv
1
General map of the Ming empire
xxvi
 
Introduction
1
8
DENIS TWITCHETT
FREDERICK W. MOTE
1 Ming government
9
97
the late CHARLES O. HUCKER, University of Michigan, emeritus
Administrative geography
10
6
The personnel of government
16
56
The structure of government
72
31
The quality of Ming governance
103
3
2 The Ming fiscal administration
106
66
RAY HUANG
Introduction
106
1
The formation of the Ming fiscal system
107
7
Fiscal organization and general practices
114
12
State revenues and their distributions
126
22
Readjustments in the sixteenth century and the final collapse
148
20
Conclusion
168
4
3 Ming law
172
49
JOHN D. LANGLOIS, JR.
J. P. Morgan and Co., Incorporated
The character of Ming law
176
4
The Ming penal system
180
8
Ming legal procedure
188
14
Legal education and professionalism
202
7
Conclusion
209
2
Appendix A: Ming commentaries on the code and handbooks on jurisprudence
211
3
Appendix B: Ming handbooks for local magistrates
214
7
THOMAS G. NIMICK, United States Military Academy
4 The Ming and Inner Asia
221
51
MORRIS ROSSABI, Queens College
The sources
222
2
The Mongol threat
224
17
The Ming and the disunited land of the lamas
241
5
Central Asia: diminishing relations with China
246
12
From Jurchens to Manchus
258
14
5 Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming
272
29
DONALD N. CLARK, Trinity University
The pattern of Sino-Korean tributary relations
272
1
Ming-Korean relations: the first phase
273
6
Tribute missions
279
5
The Ming-Korean-Jurchen triangle
284
5
Other issues in Ming-Korean relations
289
4
Ming-Korean relations during Hideyoshi's invasions
293
6
Korea and the fall of the Ming
299
2
6 Ming foreign relations: Southeast Asia
301
32
WANG GUNGWU, University of Hong Kong, emeritus
7 Relations with maritime Europeans, 1514-1662
333
43
JOHN E. WILLS, JR. University of Southern California
The tribute system matrix
333
2
The Portuguese entry, 1514-1524
335
6
From Liampo to Macao, 1530-1572
341
4
Macao and Nagasaki, 1572-1640
345
8
Manila
353
10
Missionaries and the Ming state
363
3
The Dutch onslaught
366
3
The Dutch and the Spanish on Taiwan
369
4
The world of the maritime Chinese
373
3
8 Ming China and the emerging world economy, c. 1470-1650
376
41
WILLIAM ATWELL, Hobart -- William Smith College
Introduction
376
5
Silver and the Ming monetary system
381
7
Mining in Central Europe and the New World and its impact on Sino-Western trade
388
8
Japanese silver and the expansion of Sino-Japanese trade during the late Ming period
396
4
Monetary factors affecting Chinese foreign trade during the late Ming period
400
3
Foreign silver and the late Ming economy
403
14
9 The socio-economic development of rural China during the Ming
417
162
MARTIN HEIJDRA, Princeton University
Introduction
417
1
The macro-economic setting
417
41
Rural administration: tax collection and the rural social order
458
19
Rural administration: changes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
477
19
Commercialization of the countryside
496
20
The agricultural response
516
36
Socio-economic developments in the late Ming
552
23
Conclusion
575
4
10 Communications and commerce
579
129
TIMOTHY BROOK, University of Toronto
State systems of communication and transportation
582
21
Transport
603
16
Travel
619
16
The circulation of knowledge
635
35
Commerce
670
38
11 Confucian learning in late Ming thought
708
81
WILLARD PETERSON, Princeton University
Introduction
708
8
The Learning of the Way in late Ming
716
54
Other endeavors in learning by literati as Confucians
770
19
12 Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China
789
51
WILLARD PETERSON, Princeton University
Putting on new clothes
793
17
Literati who associated themselves with the Learning from Heaven: the Three Pillars
810
30
13 Official religion in the Ming
840
53
ROMEYN TAYLOR, University of Minnesota
Introduction
840
7
Official religion
847
2
Imperial autocracy and literati elitism: the great sacrifices
849
28
Taoism and the great sacrifices
877
2
The official religion and the empire
879
12
Conclusions
891
2
14 Ming Buddhism
893
60
YU CHUN-FANG, Rutgers University
Introduction
893
6
Buddhism in the early Ming period
899
19
Buddhism during the middle period of the Ming
918
9
Buddhism in the late Ming period
927
4
Four Buddhist masters of the late Ming period
931
15
Buddhism in late Ming society
946
7
15 Taoism in Ming culture
953
34
JUDITH A. BERLING, Graduate Theological Union
Bibliographic notes
987
18
Bibliography
1005
79
Glossary-index
1084