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Raymond Yiwen Huang

    1587, A Year of No Significance
    • 1982

      1587, A Year of No Significance

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      4.2(792)Add rating

      1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (Chinese: 萬曆十五年; pinyin: Wanli Shiwunian) is Chinese historian Ray Huang's most famous work. First published by Yale University Press in 1981,[1] it examines how a number of seemingly insignificant events in 1587 might have caused the downfall of the Ming empire. The views expressed in the book follow the macro history perspective.

      1587, A Year of No Significance