A Ming Society
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE  THE SETTING
 expand sectionChapter 1  The Land: Its Settlement, Use, And Appreciation

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE PRESSURES OF CHANGE
 expand sectionChapter 2  Managing the Local Wealth
 collapse sectionChapter 3  The Demography of Family and Class
 •The Data
 •Sex Rations
 •Wives, Concubines, And Maids In T'al-Ho
 •The Problem Of Upper-Class Population Growth
 •The Demographic Behavior Of The T'al-Ho Elite In The Ming
 •Emigration
 •Bondage
 expand sectionChapter 4  Patrilineal Groups and Their Transformation
 expand sectionChapter 5  Pathways to Ming Government

 collapse sectionPART THREE  T'AI-HO LITERATI IN THE WIDER WORLD OF MING CHINA
 expand sectionChapter 6  Colleagues and Protégés  The Fifteenth-Century World of the T'ai-Ho Grand Secretaries
 expand sectionChapter 7  Cutting Loose  The Provocative Style of Yin Chih (1427-1511)
 expand sectionChapter 8  Philosophical Furors
 expand sectionCONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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