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| | * Wright, David Curtis. ''History of China'' (2001) 257pp; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-history-of-china-by-david-curtis-wright-john-e-findling-frank-w-thackeray.jsp online edition] | | * Wright, David Curtis. ''History of China'' (2001) 257pp; [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-history-of-china-by-david-curtis-wright-john-e-findling-frank-w-thackeray.jsp online edition] |
| | * [http://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=30&as_brr=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=1&as_vt=history+china&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn= full text of older histories (pre 1923)] | | * [http://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=30&as_brr=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=1&as_vt=history+china&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn= full text of older histories (pre 1923)] |
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| | ===Prehistory and early history=== | | ===Prehistory and early history=== |
| | * Chang, Kwang-chih. ''The Archaeology of Ancient China,'' Yale University Press, 1986. | | * Chang, Kwang-chih. ''The Archaeology of Ancient China,'' Yale University Press, 1986. |
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| − | * Hymes, Robert, and Conrad Schirokauer, eds. ''Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China,'' U of California Press, 1993; [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1000031p/?&query=&brand=ucpress complete text online free]
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| − | * Brook, Timothy. ''The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China.'' U. of California Press, 1998. [http://www.amazon.com/Confusions-Pleasure-Commerce-Culture-China/dp/0520221540/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197246164&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Dardess, John W. ''A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.'' U. of California Press, 1983; uses advanced "new social history" [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2s2004qh/?&query=&brand=ucpress complete text online free]
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| − | * Farmer, Edward. ''Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule.'' E.J. Brill, 1995.
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| − | * Goodrich, L. Carrington, and Chaoying Fang. ''Dictionary of Ming Biography.'' (1976).
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| − | * Huang, Ray. ''1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline.'' (1981). [http://www.amazon.com/1587-Year-No-Significance-Dynasty/dp/0300028849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197246303&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Mote, Frederick W. and Twitchett, Denis, eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1.'' (1988). 976 pp.
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| − | * Schneewind, Sarah. ''A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China.'' (2006). [http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Melons-Emperor-Subject/dp/0872208249/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197246335&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. ''Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle.'' (2001). [http://www.amazon.com/Perpetual-Happiness-Ming-Emperor-Yongle/dp/0295981245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197246363&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Mote, Frederick W., and Denis Twitchett, eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7, part 1: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644'' (1988). 1008 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521243327/ref=nosim/?tag=livseaboo-20&linkCode=asn excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Twitchett, Denis and Frederick W. Mote, eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2. '' (1998). 1203 pp.; Twitchett, Denis and Frederick W. Mote, eds. ''The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1.''
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| − | ===Economy and environment===
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| − | * Chow, Gregory C. ''China's Economic Transformation'' (2nd ed. 2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Economic-Transformation-Gregory-Chow/dp/1405156244/ref=pd_sim_b_img_3 excerpt and text search]
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| − | * Elvin, Mark. ''Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China.'' (2004). 564 pp.
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| − | * Elvin, Mark and Liu, Ts'ui-jung, eds. ''Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History.'' (1998). 820 pp.
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| − | * Ji, Zhaojin. ''A History of Modern Shanghai Banking: The Rise and Decline of China's Finance Capitalism.'' (2003. 325) pp.
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| − | * Naughton, Barry. ''The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth'' (2007)
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| − | * Rawski, Thomas G. and Lillian M. Li, eds. ''Chinese History in Economic Perspective,'' University of California Press, 1992 [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6489p0n6/?&query=&brand=ucpress complete text online free]
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| − | * Sheehan, Jackie. ''Chinese Workers: A New History.'' Routledge, 1998. 269 pp.
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| − | * Stuart-Fox, Martin. ''A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence.'' (2003). 278 pp.
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| | ===Intellectual, social and cultural history=== | | ===Intellectual, social and cultural history=== |