Zhu Ming Upstart
by Wu Han
About This Novel
Wu Han, a famous expert on Ming history, wrote "The New Official Class in the Ming Dynasty, Social, Political, and Cultural Relationships and Their Life" in 1943. It is an unpublished posthumous work by Mr. Wu Han. The article pointed out that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the original anti-Yuan rebels and supporters transformed into a new ruling class, which Wu Han called "new officials." This group includes the royal family, relatives, eunuchs, imperial examination bureaucrats and even grassroots lijia and grain chiefs, forming a broad privileged class. Wu Han conducted a comprehensive and systematic analysis of this class from the aspects of the era background, privilege structure, imperial examination system, official corruption, harm caused by the gentry, parasitic lifestyle and cultural taste. It provides readers with a new perspective on the Ming Dynasty, and provides understandable clues to the politics, contradictions, struggles, and even culture and life of the Ming Dynasty. In order to supplement our understanding of this topic, this book selects several other related papers by Wu Han to form a more systematic treatise. I believe that readers will have a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the ruling elite of the Ming Dynasty by reading this book.
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