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1587, a Year of No Significance

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256:. Through his personal history, Huang illustrates that the typical career path to becoming a Grand Secretary was primarily academic, through the civil service exams and the Hanlin Academy, as opposed to government experience. The ritual of the Emperor's public study session is used to explain how the Imperial government relied primarily on personnel appointments and setting a moral example to inspire good conduct and good governance, as it did not have the resources to maintain order and legitimacy through military power or bureaucratic micromanagement. 248:
and the government, and Wanli's marriage and romantic companions. The chapter ends with the death and subsequent condemnation of Grand Secretary Zhang for controlling the Emperor and the government for his own personal gain.
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by 1976, no publisher would accept it at first, as it was not serious enough for an academic work but was too serious for popular non-fiction.
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The first chapter covers the Wanli Emperor's upbringing, especially his early ascent to the throne, his education under Grand Secretary
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in 1981, it examines how a number of seemingly-insignificant events in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the
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The work has been translated into a number of different languages:
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in 1999. The second production was in 2006, after Woo and the
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1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
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Major figures discussed in the book besides the emperor are
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1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
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The Chinese title, meaning "the fifteenth year of the
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The second chapter focuses on First Grand Secretary
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Ray Huang
History
Yale University Press
ISBN
978-0-300-02518-7
Chinese
pinyin
historian
Ray Huang
Yale University Press
Ming dynasty
Wanli era
Chinese calendar
era name
Chinese emperor
Grand Secretaries
Zhang Juzheng
Shen Shixing
Hai Rui
Qi Jiguang
Li Zhi
manuscript
Mandarin
Japanese
Korean
German
French
Zhang Juzheng
Imperial City

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