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Who was Yang Tinghe? Despite being one of Ming China’s most eminent officials, Yang and his career have long eluded scholarly study in the West.
In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores how Yang, a pragmatic politician and conservative Confucian, rose through the bureaucracy and responded to dire threats to the Ming court from within and without. He also traces Yang’s meteoric rise to power, the clashes that occasioned his downfall, and his apotheosis as dynastic savior.
Through Yang Tinghe’s successes, struggles, and failures this political biography offers a critical appraisal of both the man and his times.
In this volume, Aaron Throness engages a trove of untapped Ming sources and secondary scholarship to recount Yang Tinghe’s political life, and in unprecedented detail. Throness explores how Yang, a pragmatic politician and conservative Confucian, rose through the bureaucracy and responded to dire threats to the Ming court from within and without. He also traces Yang’s meteoric rise to power, the clashes that occasioned his downfall, and his apotheosis as dynastic savior.
Through Yang Tinghe’s successes, struggles, and failures this political biography offers a critical appraisal of both the man and his times.
Price: $116.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Sinica Leidensia
Publication Date:
11 October 2023
ISBN: 9789004549340
Format: Hardcover
Aaron Throness, MA (2022), University of British Columbia, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He has published several essays on Ming political history in Ming Studies and T’oung Pao.