TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brook,Timothy
TI  - The Chinese state in Ming society
SN  - 0415345073 (pbk.)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - China
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1368-1644
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 960-1644
N1  - 'Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.'; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000316.html
ER  -