Mao Peiqi Provides an In-Depth Analysis of the Seventeen Emperors of the Ming Dynasty: Part One

Author: Mao Peiqi
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The Ming Dynasty surpassed the Tang and Song in governance, yet its successes and failures are judged by whom? It followed the Yuan Dynasty and established the Qing Dynasty, with its political virtues lasting for six hundred years. "The Ming surpassed the Tang and Song," this was the evaluation given by the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty to the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming. In the impression of modern Chinese, the Ming Dynasty was the worst era imaginable: whether the cruelty and severity of the Hongwu and Chengzu emperors, the ambition and recklessness of the Yingzong and Wuzong emperors, or the decades of neglecting court duties by the Jiajing and Wanli emperors, to the stubbornness of the Chongzhen Emperor, all these absurdities left one wondering how this dynasty managed to last nearly three hundred years. This book is the first part of Professor Mao Peiqi's lecture series "Ming Dynasty Seventeen Emperors' Mysteries" on the "One Hundred Family Forum" program, focusing on some historical mysteries of the early Ming Dynasty, covering approximately one hundred and twenty years from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Chengzu Dynasty. Was the Ming Dynasty an era of great darkness or a golden age? The authoritative historians of CCTV unravel the mysteries of imperial rise and fall on the One Hundred Family Forum. This book is the first part of Professor Mao Peiqi's lecture series "Ming Dynasty Seventeen Emperors' Mysteries" on the "One Hundred Family Forum" program, focusing on some historical mysteries of the early Ming Dynasty, covering approximately one hundred and twenty years from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Chengzu Dynasty.