TY  - GEN
T1  - Blood and history in China : the Donglin faction and its repression, 1620-1627
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Dardess, John W., 1937-
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawai'i Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52841130
AB  - From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national moral rearmament under the Tianqi emperor. While their martyrs' deaths won them a lasting reputation for heroism and steadfastness, their opponents are remembered for fatally degrading the quality of Ming political life with their arrests and tortures of Donglin partisans. John Dardess employs a wide range of little-used primary sources (letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, memorials, imperial edicts) to provide a remarkably detailed narrative of the inner workings of Ming government and of this dramatic period as a whole. Comparing the repression with the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989, he argues that Tiananmen offers compelling clues to a rereading of the events of the 1620s. Leaders of both movements were less interested in practical reform than in communicating sincere moral feelings to rulers and the public. In the end the protesters succeeded in commemorating their dead and imprisoned and in disgracing those responsible for the violence. A work of unprecedented depth skillfully told, Blood and History in China will be appreciated by specialists in intellectual history and Ming and early Qing studies
OP  - 207
CN  - DS753.2 .D37 2002eb
SN  - 0585463573
SN  - 9780585463575
SN  - 9780824861643
SN  - 0824861647
SN  - 082482475X
SN  - 0824825160
SN  - 9780824824754
SN  - 9780824825164
KW  - Dong lin shu yuan (China)
KW  - China : History : Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
KW  - Political parties : China.
KW  - Chine : Histoire : 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming)
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : Political Parties.
KW  - Political parties
KW  - China
KW  - Donglin : Politische Bewegung
KW  - Geschichte 1620-1627.
KW  - 1368-1644
KW  - History
ER  -