The Military Collapse of China\'s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44
The Military Collapse of China\'s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 This book examines the military collapse of China's Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. In contrast to conventional…
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The Military Collapse of China\'s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44
This book examines the military collapse of China's Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. In contrast to conventional explanations for the Ming's collapse, which focus upon political and socio-economic factors, this book shows how the military collapse of the Ming state was intimately connected to the deterioration of the personal relationship between the Ming throne and the military establishment that had served as the cornerstone of the Ming military renaissance of the previous decades. The Ming's defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a planned invasion of China.
Moreover, it examines the broader process of the militarization of late Ming society as a