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The Ming world

Title
The Ming world / edited by Kenneth M. Swope.
ISBN
9780429318719
0429318715
9781000124385
100012438X
9781000134667
1000134660
9781000129526
1000129527
9781138190986
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 562 pages).
Local Notes
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Routledge handbooks online HSS 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2020
Series
The Routledge worlds
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 (1597-1680) musical life in late Ming China / 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 in the Ming world / John K. Whitmore
Korean eunuchs as imperial envoys: relations with Chosôn through the Zhengde reign / Wang Sixiang
War, commerce and tributary relations in the Sino-Korean borderland of the late sixteenth century / Masato Hasegawa.
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