Ming yuan Qing xi tong ji 明元清系通紀 [Comprehensive Annals from the Establishment of the Ming...
16 vols. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: s.n., [after 1934].
First edition of this work on Ming and early Qing history by one of the founders of the field. Meng Sen (1868-1938) was “a pioneer of Ming-Qing history in twentieth-century China. Since early in his life, Meng had been interested in laws and state institutions, both as historical phenomena and as matters crucial to government reform in the last decade of Qing rule.” Meng began his career as a private secretary to a high official, and also worked for Qing constitutional reform. After the establishment of... More