Brush, Seal and Abacus: Troubled Vitality in Late Ming China's Economic Heartland, 1500-1644

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This book is a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social groups--literati, scholar-officials, and merchants--as the framework for discussing the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces that coalesced and...