History: Review of New Books, September 22nd, 2001
Tsai, Shih-shen Henry Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle Seattle: University of Washington Press 270 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-295-98109-1 Publication Date: May 2001
China during the late imperial era, spanning five hundred years of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties, was ruled by some of the most powerful and sometimes brilliant monarchs since the imperial system began in the third century B.C.E. Such imperial autocrats possessed unprecedented power to shape the course of Chinese history in the early modern age. Shih-shen Henry Tsai, a professor of history and director...
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