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
 expand sectionChapter 3  The Demography of Family and Class
 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
 collapse sectionChapter 7  Cutting Loose  The Provocative Style of Yin Chih (1427-1511)
 •Yin Chih's Negative Assessment Of Yang Shih-Ch'i
 •High-Level Power Games
 •Yin Chih As Statesman
 •Yin Chih's Assault On The Confucian Revival
 •Yin Chih In Retirement
 expand sectionChapter 8  Philosophical Furors
 expand sectionCONCLUSION AND EPILOGUE

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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