Local Administration in Ming China

Local Administration in Ming China

Author: Thomas G. Nimick

Publisher: Society for Ming Studies; Cemh Pub., University of Minnesota Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 224

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Thomas G. Nimick, a leading authority on Ming government, draws on Chinese sources to provide the most detailed account of local Ming government available in English. Rational bureaucratic administration is one of China's greatest contributions to the art of governance. After centuries of evolution, the Chinese civil service system reached new heights during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Local Administration in Ming China traces the origins and evolution of the lowest level of administrative offices over the course of the dynasty. It starts with the Ming founder's experiments with using members of the local elite to collect taxes and goes on to the increased reliance on magistrates and prefects sent out from the center. The story concludes with the fiscal problems at the end of the dynasty. This work includes the following contents: Introduction, Local Government in Early Ming, Changes in Local Government int he Fifteenth Century, From Specially Selected Officials to Province and Magistrate, Fiscal Pressures and Operational Changes, Continued Possibility of Structural Changes and the Climax of Fiscal Troubles, Conclusion, and Annotated Bibliography


Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China

Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China

Author: Ray Huang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780521202831

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Originally published in 1974, this is a detailed study of the financial administration of the Chinese government during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with particular attention to the sixteenth century, a topic about which very little has been published either in Chinese or any Western language. Professor Huang has worked through an enormous quantity and variety of source material - in particular the 133 substantial volumes of the Ming Veritable Records - and has compared the documents on financial matters with the entries in local gazetteers. The complicated workings of government finance present great difficulties to all specialists in Chinese financial and administrative history and in different branches of local Chinese history from the fifteenth century onwards. Professor Huang's study will provide all such researchers with an authoritative work of reference.


China's Local Administration

China's Local Administration

Author: Jae Ho Chung

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-16

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1135203725

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This book presents a comprehensive survey of China’s local administration. It considers all kinds of local government units and their administrative functions, both historically and in the present day: ranging from the provinces, centrally-administered municipalities and autonomous regions to prefectures, counties, townships and urban districts.


Mongolian Rule in China

Mongolian Rule in China

Author: Elizabeth Endicott

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 240

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The Mongolian Yuan dynasty, 1272-1368, is a short but interesting chapter in the long history of Sino-Mongolian relations. Faced with the challenge of governing a huge sedentary empire, the traditionally nomadic Mongols acceded to some Chinese institutional precedents, but, in large part, adhered to their own Inner Asian practices of staffing and administering the government apparatus. Yuan administrative documents provide information that permits a fairly accurate reconstruction of the day-to-day functioning of the local government bureaucracy. From these materials, Endicott-West has put together a detailed picture of the Mongols' methods of selecting local officials, the ethnic backgrounds of officials, and policy formation and implementation at the local level.


Local Government and Politics in China

Local Government and Politics in China

Author: Yang Zhong

Publisher: East Gate Book

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 248

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This study of local government and politics in China explores when and why local government officials comply with policy directives from above. It provides an in-depth look at policy implementation at the county and township levels in the PRC.


Early Ming Government

Early Ming Government

Author: Edward L. Farmer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 296

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Preliminary Material /Farmer Edward L. --Early Ming Emperors /Farmer Edward L. --The Ming Empire /Farmer Edward L. --The Founding, 1355-1379 /Farmer Edward L. --Instability, 1380-1402 /Farmer Edward L. --Consolidation of Ming Power: The Yung-Lo Era, 1403-1425 /Farmer Edward L. --The Dual Capital System /Farmer Edward L. --The Transition to Peking: Control of Resources /Farmer Edward L. --The Capital as a Power Center /Farmer Edward L. --Notes /Farmer Edward L. --Bibliography /Farmer Edward L. --Glossary /Farmer Edward L. --Index /Farmer Edward L. --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Farmer Edward L.