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The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty ), numerous rump regimes ruled by remnants of the Ming imperial family —collectively called the ...
The Ming succession dispute from 1586 to 1614 was a conflict between the Wanli Emperor, the emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, and a significant group of Ming officials. The disagreement centered around the appointment of the crown prince.
The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...
The Great Rites Controversy (simplified Chinese: 大礼议; traditional Chinese: 大禮議; pinyin: Dàlǐyì) took place in the decade following 1524 within the government of the Chinese Ming dynasty. It pitted the young and newly enthroned Jiajing Emperor against the Grand Secretary Yang Tinghe and most of the scholar-bureaucrats in his ...
The History of Ming is the final official Chinese history included in the Twenty-Four Histories. It consists of 332 volumes and covers the history of the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644. It was written by a number of officials commissioned by the court of Qing dynasty, with Zhang Tingyu as the lead editor.
The officials at the Ming court thought this was a dumb idea and refused the proposal. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] As of 1622 the Ming dynasty had spent 21,188,366 taels on the war in Liaodong over a three-year period.
1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Chinese: 萬曆十五年; pinyin: Wanli Shiwunian) is the most famous work of the Chinese historian Ray Huang. First published by Yale University Press in 1981, [ 1 ] it examines how a number of seemingly-insignificant events in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the Ming dynasty .
The culture of the Ming dynasty was deeply rooted in traditional Chinese values, but also saw a flourishing of fine arts, literature, and philosophy in the late 15th century. During this time, the government played a stronger role in shaping culture, requiring the use of Zhu Xi 's interpretation of Neo-Confucianism in civil service examinations ...