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For all the benefits they brought about, these developments sowed the seeds of trouble. The author explains how unconstrained profit-seeking eroded the social and moral fabric of society and widened the gap between rich and poor. Toward the end of the sixteenth century, economic conditions worsened. Bitter resentments gave rise to popular riots against predatory great families. Eventually, mass revolts across the empire and Manchu’s invasion dealt a crushing blow to the region’s economy. In the 1630s and 1640s, the region plunged into depression and despair.
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―Yu Yingshi, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
This book is an outstanding descriptive profile of late Ming society in a key region of southeast China that was noted for its wealth and cultural sophistication. It is based upon a very wide reading both of the plentiful Ming sources, many of them rare, and of modern scholarship. Especially compelling are the living descriptions of the extreme inequalities in the distribution of wealth, of the immense power achieved by some bondsmen in the service of rich families and lineages, and of the ethical and intellectual contamination of the whole. The book should appeal to a wide readership of students, specialists, and general readers.
―John W. Dardess, Professor Emeritus, The University of Kansas
This work draws on many diverse Chinese primary sources and some secondary scholarship in Chinese and English to describe the lives and perspectives of key members of the elite in Ming China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It concludes that they acted in a wide variety of ways in efforts to cope with their highly mobile and everchanging society. It will contribute to important discussions about the structures of Chinese and world history.
―Roger Des Forges, Professor of History Emeritus, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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