1587, a year of no significanceRenyu Huang
1587, a year of no significance
by Renyu Huang · first published 1985
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…special commands and employed new modes of training and tactics but using regular conscripted forces. The aforementioned Japanese-led pirates raiding the coast were vanquished in this way. I recommend 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang (a historian and former military officer) for anyone who is interested in this topic.
on “Jianruiying, the Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty” ↗If this is interesting to you, I also recommend Ray Huang's "1587, a Year of No Significance": https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/815857.1587 I'm only halfway through the book but it's been an informative and entertaining read so far. It delves into the bureaucracy that this kind of examination…
on “The Chinese Civil Examinations” ↗…choose this path. <River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze> -> one of my fav all the time. a forigner teach in this small chinese city, and he write what he observes. for more ancient chinese history: <1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline> -> one of the most popular china's history book for these years. highly recommnded. i read a lot but i doubt many of them has a non-chinese version. the above ones are…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗…cities, but their capacity to affect life in the empire as a whole was limited. > Something like this also seems to have been true in China, to judge from Ray Huang's snapshot history of the Ming Dynasty, "1587: A Year of No Significance." In that case, the right of petition was rather more limited. It extended to local magistrates, who did not hesitate to pepper the imperial secretariat with memorials containing their bright ideas. The…
on “Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance” ↗Your response made me laugh, but the book is actually more narrow than the post title suggests > 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
on “Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance” ↗