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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN 9780674056206 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0674046021 (alk. paper)

ISBN 9780674046023 (alk. paper)

Print version: Brook, Timothy. Troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 329 pages ; 25 cm ISBN 9780674046023

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index

Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.

Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period..

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(OCoLC)873806310