The Ming world /

The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Swope, Kenneth, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2020]
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping the background: the uncertain influence of the Ming state and imperial leadership / Thomas Nimick
  • Nanjing's Longjiang Shipyard treatise and our knowledge of Ming ships / Sally Church
  • How Yongle learned to stop worrying and love the gun: perspectives on early Ming military history / Tonio Andrade
  • The paradoxical effect of autocracy: collective deliberation in the Ming official merit-evaluation system / Yang Wei
  • Deserts and islands: politics and border control, 1547-49 / Roland Higgins
  • Cartography in the Ming / Ken Hammond
  • Gender & religion in the Ming / Ann Waltner
  • Adopting an orphan: theater and urban culture in Ming China / Yuming He
  • Theater and society in the Ming world / Hsiao Li-ling
  • The Han-ness of Ming China / Leo Shin
  • The hall of supreme harmony as simulacrum of Ming dynasty construction / Aurelia Campbell
  • The Confucian ideal friend / Ying Zhang
  • The lineage organization in Ming China: a case study of Haining / Ivy Lim
  • Soaring dragon amid dynastic transition: dates and legitimacy among the post-Ming Chinese diaspora / Xing Hang
  • The legend of Tang Saier / Kenneth M. Swope
  • Wang Yangming in Chuzhou and Nanjing, 1513-1516: "I have only two words to say: 'be truthful!'" / Larry Israel
  • Zhang Dai's musical life / Joseph Lam
  • The making of an empress in life and death: Empresses Xiaoduan's and Xiaojing's burial goods in the Ding mausoleum / Yu-ping Luk
  • From peasant rebel to loyalist: the career of Li Dingguo / Kenneth M. Swope
  • The Ming as a Eurasian power / Edward L. Farmer
  • Contested histories of Ming agency in the Java Sea, Straits of Melaka and Bay of Bengal region / Kenneth R. Hall
  • Dai Viet & the Ming world / John K. Whitmore
  • Korean eunuchs as imperial envoys: relations with Chosôn through the Zhengde reign / Wang Sixiang
  • War and commerce in the Sino-Korean borderland of the late sixteenth century / Masato Hasegawa.