Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/lKx2CCD State versus Gentry in Late Ming Dynasty China, 1572–1644 By: H. Miller Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9780230611344, 0230611346 eText ISBN: 9780230617872, 0230617875 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 79.99 USD SKU 9780230617872 This book looks at the bitter factionalism in the last days of China's Ming Dynasty as an ideological struggle between scholar-officials who believed that sovereignty resided in the imperial state and those who believed that it resided with the learned gentry.