文档介绍：The Impact of Ming China
China’s Influence on World Events Before 1644
The Ming Impact
Ming Civilization provided:
Model anized government
Sense that government should benefit the larger population, not just the rulers
Maritime technology
Trade innovations & proto-anization
Market for European New-world Silver
Financed much exploration & colonization
China’s Advanced Civilization
Jonathan Spence, in the first chapter of his book In Search of Modern China makes the point exceptionally well:
“ Rulers in Europe, India, Japan, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire were all struggling to develop systematic bureaucracies that would expand their tax base and manage their swelling territories effectively, as well as draw to new royal power cetners the resources of agriculture and trade. But China’s massive bureaucracy was already firmly in place4, harmonized by a millenium of tradition and bonded by an immense body of statutory laws and provisions that, in theory at least, could offer pertinent advice on any problem that might arise in the daily life of China’s people.”
So, where we have been looking to find out what caused the industrial revolution in England specifically, and Europe in general, one of the things we have been noticing is a trend toward morecentralized andefficient government that took fair taxes, and supported the economy of its subjects with a clear recognition that their enterprizewas good for the national economy, which increased the tax base, which was good for thre ruler, as well.
But, as Spence notes, China already had that, and that means we have to take into account 2300 extra years of history, because the question must then be, why didn’t China industrialize? The es, at least in part, in understanding the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China from 1368 to 1644.
The Mongol Empires
The Yuan Dynasty: Mongol Power
Kubilai Khan dies 1294
Various popular rebellions against the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty
Ming Hung-wu leads one
Controls China by 1368
The Ming L