Brook, Timothy,  1951- <br/><br/>
The Chinese state in Ming society / 
Timothy Brook 
 - 1st ed. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2004 
 - 248 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> 'Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.' 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Part 1. Surveys -- The spatial organization of subcounty administration -- The gazetteer cartography of Ye Chunji -- Part 2. Fields -- Taxing polders on the Yangzi Delta -- Growing rice in North Zhili -- Part 3. Books -- Building school libraries in the mid-Ming -- State censorship and the book trade -- Part 4. Monasteries -- At the margin of public authority: the Ming state and Buddhism -- Buddhism in the Chinese constitution: recording monasteries in North Zhili 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415345073 (pbk.) 0415345065 (hardback)  RM550.50 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Politics and government--1368-1644<br/>China--Social conditions--960-1644