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The Troubled Empire

Hardcover • 2010 • English

The Troubled Empire

By Timothy Brook

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. "The Troubled Empire" explores what happened to China between these two dramat...Show more

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ISBN

9780674046023

Publisher

The Belknap Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Troubled Empire

Format

Hardcover

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