Ming Dynasty Eunuch-Historian Wang Chunyu's Selected Works from the Shuxue Bookstore

Author: Wang Chunyu
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: What was the true appearance of eunuchs in the historical records? The Ming Dynasty eunuchs, renowned for their long tenure and extensive power, gradually intervened and ultimately controlled all aspects of national politics and economy, taking the plight of eunuchs to its extreme in three thousand years of history. This book is an authoritative and comprehensive work that thoroughly analyzes the Ming Dynasty eunuchs from multiple perspectives. The author is a senior expert in Ming history at the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, with over forty years of research in the field. He has particularly studied the calamity of Ming eunuchs, writing with extensive references and rigorous (research and verification), ensuring no casualness in his pen. He even devotes separate chapters to fifty-eight Ming Dynasty eunuchs, compiling all available historical records from ancient and modern sources to provide readers with a complete and accurate understanding of individual eunuchs and a comprehensive insight into Ming political affairs.