Ming China 1368 1644

Author : John W. Dardess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442204904

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Ming China, 1368-1644 by John W. Dardess Pdf

This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West, and its story will fascinate all readers interested in global as well as Asian history.

Author : Jun Fang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135008451

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China's Second Capital - Nanjing under the Ming, 1368-1644 by Jun Fang Pdf

This book is a study of the dual capital system of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644), with a focus on the administrative functions of the auxiliary Southern Capital, Nanjing. It argues that the immense geographical expanse of the Chinese empire and the poor communication infrastructure of pre-modern times necessitated the establishment of an additional capital administration for effective control of the Ming realm. The existence of the Southern Capital, which has been dismissed by scholars as redundant and insignificant, was, the author argues, justified by its ability to assist the primary Northern Capital better control the southern part of the imperial land. The practice of maintaining auxiliary capitals, where the bureaucratic structures of the primary capital were replicated in varying degrees, was a unique and valuable approach to effecting bureaucratic control over vast territory in pre-modern conditions. Nanjing translates into English as "Southern Capital" and Beijing as "Northern Capital".

Author : Charles O. Hucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015032399043

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The Traditional Chinese State in Ming Times (1368-1644) by Charles O. Hucker Pdf

Author : Grant Guangren Shen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134290253

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Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368-1644 by Grant Guangren Shen Pdf

Theatre occupied a particularly important place in the life of the elite, for whom owning a theatre troupe was highly fashionable and for whom theatre performances were an integral part of formal gatherings, various rituals and ceremonies. Based on an exploration of original historical records, including comparisons with other forms of ancient theatre, Shen provides an overview of elite theatre in Ming China and examines the details of theatrical performance.

Author : Ying Zhang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004432291

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Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644) by Ying Zhang Pdf

Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture.

Author : Francesca Bray
Publisher : Shot Historical Perspectives o
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002591696

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Technology and Society in Ming China, 1368-1644 by Francesca Bray Pdf

Historians of Chinese technology have tended to pay little attention to the Ming dynasty, characterizing it as a stagnantperiod unmarked by significant inventions of the kind that in Europe gave rise to the industrial revolution and the modern world. Yet the Ming was a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic vitality and change, and it would be curious if technology had played no part in these changes. This pamphlet approaches the material world of the Ming from a more anthropological perspective than has been conventional among historians of China, emphasizing the role of technologies in social order and identity.

Author : Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 023103833X

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Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644 by Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee,Luther Carrington Goodrich Pdf

Based largely upon original Ming documents, the Dictionary explores the lives of nearly 650 representative figures, both Chinese and foreign, who influenced the course of almost three hundred years of Chinese history. The articles span all classes, professions, and fields of endeavor, from emperors to artists, soldiers to missionaries, concubines, physicians, and pirates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000117932

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The Cambridge History of China: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, pt. 1-2 by Anonim Pdf

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174744

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Culture, Courtiers, and Competition by David M. Robinson Pdf

"This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, processes driven by immediate personal imperatives, mediated through social, political, and cultural interaction.The essays address several common themes. First, they rethink previous notions of imperial isolation, instead stressing the court’s myriad ties both to local Beijing society and to the empire as a whole. Second, the court was far from monolithic or static. Palace women, monks, craftsmen, educators, moralists, warriors, eunuchs, foreign envoys, and others strove to advance their interests and forge advantageous relations with the emperor and one another. Finally, these case studies illustrate the importance of individual agency. The founder’s legacy may have formed the warp of court practices and tastes, but the weft varied considerably. Reflecting the complexity of the court, the essays represent a variety of perspectives and disciplines—from intellectual, cultural, military, and political to art history and musicology."

Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924079

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The Confusions of Pleasure by Timothy Brook Pdf

The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. The Confusions of Pleasure marks a significant departure from the conventional ways in which Chinese history has been written. Rather than recounting the Ming dynasty in a series of political events and philosophical achievements, it narrates this longue durée in terms of the habits and strains of everyday life. Peppered with stories of real people and their negotiations of a rapidly changing world, this book provides a new way of seeing the Ming dynasty that not only contributes to the scholarly understanding of the period but also provides an entertaining and accessible introduction to Chinese history for anyone.

Author : Michael Szonyi,Shiyu Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000283266

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The Chinese Empire in Local Society by Michael Szonyi,Shiyu Zhao Pdf

This book explores the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) military, its impact on local society, and its many legacies for Chinese society. It is based on extensive original research by scholars using the methodology of historical anthropology, an approach that has transformed the study of Chinese history by approaching the subject from the bottom up. Its nine chapters, each based on a different region of China, examine the nature of Ming military institutions and their interaction with local social life over time. Several chapters consider the distinctive role of imperial institutions in frontier areas and how they interacted with and affected non-Han ethnic groups and ethnic identity. Others discuss the long-term legacy of Ming military institutions, especially across the dynastic divide from Ming to Qing (1644-1912) and the implications of this for understanding more fully the nature of the Qing rule.

Author : Charles O. Hucker
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472038121

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The Ming Dynasty by Charles O. Hucker Pdf

In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368–1644), and reasserted the mastery of their national destiny. It was a dramatic era of change, the full significance of which can only be perceived retrospectively. With the establishment of the Ming dynasty, a major historical tension rose into prominence between more absolutist and less absolutist modes of rulership. This produced a distinctive style of rule that modern students have come to call Ming despotism. It proved a capriciously absolutist pattern for Chinese government into our own time. [1, 2 ,3]

Author : Jiang Yonglin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801667

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The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code by Jiang Yonglin Pdf

After overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), enabling establishment of a spiritual orientation and social agenda for China. Zhu, emperor during the Ming’s Hongwu reign period, launched a series of social programs to rebuild the empire and define Chinese cultural identity. To promote its reform programs, the Ming imperial court issued a series of legal documents, culminating in The Great Ming Code (Da Ming lu), which supported China’s legal system until the Ming was overthrown and also served as the basis of the legal code of the following dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911). This companion volume to Jiang Yonglin’s translation of The Great Ming Code (2005) analyzes the thought underlying the imperial legal code. Was the concept of the Mandate of Heaven merely a tool manipulated by the ruling elite to justify state power, or was it essential to their belief system and to the intellectual foundation of legal culture? What role did law play in the imperial effort to carry out the social reform programs? Jiang addresses these questions by examining the transformative role of the Code in educating the people about the Mandate of Heaven. The Code served as a cosmic instrument and moral textbook to ensure “all under Heaven” were aligned with the cosmic order. By promoting, regulating, and prohibiting categories of ritual behavior, the intent of the Code was to provide spiritual guidance to Chinese subjects, as well as to acquire political legitimacy. The Code also obligated officials to obey the supreme authority of the emperor, to observe filial behavior toward parents, to care for the welfare of the masses, and to maintain harmonious relationships with deities. This set of regulations made officials the representatives of the Son of Heaven in mediating between the spiritual and mundane worlds and in governing the human realm. This study challenges the conventional assumption that law in premodern China was used merely as an arm of the state to maintain social control and as a secular tool to exercise naked power. Based on a holistic approach, Jiang argues that the Ming ruling elite envisioned the cosmos as an integrated unit; they saw law, religion, and political power as intertwined, remarkably different from the “modern” compartmentalized worldview. In serving as a cosmic instrument to manifest the Mandate of Heaven, The Great Ming Code represented a powerful religious effort to educate the masses and transform society.

Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : 1861893604

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Empire of Great Brightness by Craig Clunas Pdf

History of art / art & design styles.

Author : Frederick W. Mote,Denis Twitchett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521243327

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The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1 by Frederick W. Mote,Denis Twitchett Pdf

This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han dynasty. The success of the Chinese in regaining control over their own government is an important event in history, and the Ming dynasty thus has been regarded, both in Ming times and even more so in this century, as an era of Chinese resurgence. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail. Volume 7 will be followed by a topical volume of Ming history (Volume 8) that will offer detailed studies of institutional changes, international relations, social and economic history, and the history of ideas and of religion.