A selection of 7 papers, early drafts of which were originally presented at the Research Conference on Ming Government held in 1965 at the University of Illinois under the sponsorship of the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Ming Biographical History Project Committee of the Association for Asian Studies.

Yang Lien-sheng The first fulltime Chinese historian in the Department of Far Eastern Languages, Yang Lien-sheng 楊聯陞 (1914-1990) was born in Baoding, Hubei province. He received his undergraduate education at Qinghua University, where he studied economics and completed his thesis under the direction of the historian Chen Yinke. He then came to Harvard University and became on o...(展开全部)

The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical ...(展开全部)

In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author ...(展开全部)

In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author ...(展开全部)

金鹏程（Paul R.Goldin），1996年毕业于哈佛大学，后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，历任东亚语言与文明系研究生部主任、系主任。主要研究领域为早期中国的思想与哲学。金鹏程教授富有原创性的思想和成果，在相关研究领域具有广泛的学术影响力。其著作所涉话题丰富多元，包括对于《荀子》、《论语》、《韩非子》等早期中国思想文本的全新解读与诠释，对早期中国思想的核心观念的再考察，以及对汉学研究方法的梳理与反思等。

This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song era (ca.800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a d...(展开全部)