UID:
almahu_9949384531002882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 562 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0429318715
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9781000124385
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100012438X
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9781000134667
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1000134660
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9781000129526
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1000129527
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9780429318719
Series Statement:
The Routledge worlds
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ming world. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9781138190986
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429318719
