The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties is a history book about life and events in China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, between the Mongol invasion of the Confucian empire in the 1270s and the invasion by the Manchu from the Eurasian Steppe, following extreme cold and drought in the 1630s.[1]

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
Front cover of The Troubled Empire
AuthorTimothy Brook
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
PublisherHarvard University Press
(hardback, 2010);
Belknap Press
(paperback, 2013)
Publication date
8 June 2010; 11 Mar 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages336 pp.
ISBN9780674046023 (hardback);
ISBN 978-0674072534 (paperback)

The book is written by Timothy Brook, a distinguished[2] Canadian historian who specializes in the study of China (Sinology).[3]

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