The Remaining Light of the Empire: Zhang Juzheng and His Era

As the executive director of the Zhang Juzheng Research Association, the author collects various previous research results and tracks new developments in the academic world. With detailed historical materials and a writing method that combines narrative and textual research, the author tells the story of Zhang Juzheng's fifty-eight years of life, from a genius prodigy to a inner genius. The journey of the chief bachelor of the cabinet, the implementation of all-round and multi-level reforms in politics, economy, military, culture, water conservancy, transportation, etc., Saved the social decline since Zhengde and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, and created social stability and economic prosperity in the Wanli Dynasty for decades. Strive to be comprehensive, fair and objective, without exaggerating the beauty or hiding the evil, and restore a historically true, complete, generous and grateful Zhang Juzheng and the magnificent late Ming Dynasty in which he lived.