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Roger V. Des Forges. Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xxi, 422. $75.00.

Roger V. Des Forges offers three different things in this large and well-illustrated book. Its first four chapters constitute a detailed sociopolitical encyclopedia of northeastern Henan province in Ming times (1368–1644). The next three chapters cover the late Ming rebellion of Li Zicheng—or, rather, Li's failed effort to found a post-Ming dynasty—with special attention to the impact of that rebellion on Henan. The conclusion offers a general theory of Chinese and world history. The first two offerings are of considerable interest. The third is problematical.

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