The Troubled Empire

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties is a history book about life and events in China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, between the Mongol invasion of the Confucian empire in the 1270s and the invasion by the Manchu from the Eurasian Steppe, following extreme cold and drought in the 1630s.[1]

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Front cover of The Troubled Empire
AuthorTimothy Brook
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
PublisherHarvard University Press
(hardback, 2010);
Belknap Press
(paperback, 2013)
Publication date
8 June 2010; 11 Mar 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages336 pp.
ISBN9780674046023 (hardback);
ISBN 978-0674072534 (paperback)

The book is written by Timothy Brook, a distinguished[2] Canadian historian who specializes in the study of China (Sinology).[3]

Synopsis

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Notes

  1. Staff (2010). "The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties: Timothy Brook". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
  2. Dirda, Michael (27 January 2008). "Painting the World: How a hunger for tea and tobacco created global trade". Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  3. Conrad, Peter (29 June 2008). "A time when every picture told a story". The Observer. Retrieved 2010-01-22.

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