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.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | Routledge worlds.
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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.