Blood and History in China: the Donglin faction and its repression, 1620-1627

China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.

The author details the sufferings of a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction", who suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. The author compares the Donglin affair to the events that took place in Tian'anmen in 1989. Dardess employs a wide range of little-used primary sources (letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, memorials, imperial edicts) to provide a detailed narrative of the inner workings of Ming government at this time.

Dardess, John W.

University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)

2002