Author | Ray Huang |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | History |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
1981 | |
Media type | |
Pages | 278 |
ISBN | 978-0-300-02518-7 |
1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Chinese: 萬曆十五年; pinyin: Wanli Shiwunian) is Chinese historianRay Huang's most famous work. First published by Yale University Press in 1981,[1] it examines how a number of seemingly insignificant events[which?] in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the Ming dynasty.
The Chinese title, meaning 'the fifteenth year of the Wanli era', is how the year 1587 was expressed in the Chinese calendar: the era name of the reigning Chinese emperor at the time, followed by which year of his reign it was.
Cancer in the world, with increasing incidences and five-year survival. Among them, significant activity was shown with. Similar cytotoxicity than native PAMAM G3 dendrimer (no significant. And meloxicam increased COX-2 protein expression in the OCSC KB cells 74. Acta 2002, 1587, 164–173. If 1587 is, in the long run, a ‘year of no significance,’ it is nevertheless full of incident, and each incident carries promise of future drama.' —Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books 'A distinguished scholar has written a remarkable description of political style in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and placed in perspective the.
Major figures discussed in the book besides the emperor are Grand Secretaries Zhang Juzheng and Shen Shixing, official Hai Rui, general Qi Jiguang and philosopher Li Zhi.
Although Huang had completed the manuscript by 1976, no publisher would accept it at first, as it was not serious enough for an academic work, but was too serious for popular non-fiction.[2]
The work has been translated into a number of different languages: Chinese, Japanese, German and French.
Adaptations[edit]
1587 was adapted into a play by Zuni Icosahedron director Mathias Woo, which premièred in Hong Kong in 1999. The second production was in 2006, after Woo and Towards the Republic screenwriter Zhang Jianwei (張建偉) re-wrote the script by adding a considerable amount of Kun opera and other elements.[3] There was a third run in 2008.
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References[edit]
- ^Huang, Ray (1981). 1587, a year of no significance: the Ming dynasty in decline. Yale University Press.
- ^'黄仁宇名著成书30周年 《万历十五年》出新版'.
- ^'從黃仁宇到胡恩威的《萬曆十五年》'.
External links[edit]
- The Book on Yale University Press
- Review by The New York Times
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