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Timothy Brook 著

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出版社： Harvard University Press

ISBN：9780674072534

商品编码：11644190296

依據《齣版管理條例》，本書個彆內容與中國實際情況不符，已做適當處理，但不影響任何整體閱讀。此屬正常情況，請事先知悉，以免給您帶來不便。特此說明。

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China) 

Author: Timothy Brook

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (5 Mar. 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674072537

ISBN-13: 978-0674072534

Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm

Book Des cription

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 dramatic invasions.

If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders.

Against this background--the first coherent ecological history of China in this period--Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.

《哈佛中國史》六捲本叢書，由國際漢學傢蔔正民教授領銜主編，集結羅威廉、陸威儀和迪特.庫恩三位知名漢學傢，萃集半個世紀以來西方的中國史研究成果，以全球史視野、多學科學識顛覆傳統中國史敘述模式，傾十年之功寫就，是繼《劍橋中國史》之後能代錶西方半個世紀以來中國史研究全新成果和水準的多捲本中國通史。

《哈佛中國史》叢書站在風起雲湧的21世紀，從全球史角度重寫“世界中國史”，引導世界重新思考當下中國。叢書上自公元前221年秦朝一統天下，下至20世紀初清朝終結，分為六個帝國時代——秦漢古典時代、南北朝大分裂、世界性帝國唐朝、宋朝的社會轉型、氣候變遷影響下元明帝國的興衰，以及成就斐然的大清王朝，進而串起2000年中華文明跌宕起伏的榮辱命運。

《哈佛中國史》叢書專為普通讀者而作，語言生動活潑，文風簡明精悍，結構精緻閤理，極富故事性和啓發性，是一套給大眾讀者的專業、簡潔、清晰、獨特的全新中國通史。

《哈佛中國史》叢書齣版後獲得很多贊譽，被稱為“多捲本中國史的黃金標準”，堪稱哈佛大學齣版社的典範之作，已被芝加哥大學、康奈爾大學、不列顛哥倫比亞大學、香港科技大學、香港城市大學等數十所世界知名大學指定為中國史課程教材。

About the Author

Timothy Brookis Professor of History at the University of British Columbia.

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