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Category: Ming

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

Books/Ming/Qing/Teaching

Teaching Late Imperial Chinese cultural history

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Update So I think I have figured this one out, with a little help from my friends, both here and via e-mail. I will be using Tim Brook’s Troubled Empire t...

China/Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Ming/Post-Mao

Zhou Confucianism? Ming Quality Control?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

In an absolutely fascinating article on the modern petition redress system1 focusing on attempts by regional officials to prevent petitions from reaching a nati...

China/Economics/English/Ming

Ming Dynasty tax revolt

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Historians write a lot about taxes, in part because we are often interested in states and what they do, and taxes are something that states do a lot of. Taxatio...

Articles/China/Countryside/Japan/Ming/Pigs/Social History/visual culture

Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map

Posted on July 2, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...

Books/China/Ming

Smoking in China

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

A good book answers your questions. A really good book answers questions you had not thought of yet. Apparently Tim Brook’s Vermeer’s Hat is a reall...

China/Diplomacy/Ming

Ming Imperialism

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I just found something interesting about the early Ming. It appears from the Ming Shi-lu that the Ming founder at first just sent envoys to various tributary st...

Books/China/English/Ming

Dragon mountain again

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

A few days ago Jonathan and I were discussing Steven Owen’s review of Jonathan Spence’s new book. Jonathan was not that impressed with the review, a...

Books/China/Ming

Return to Dragon Mountain

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

There is a long review of Jonathan Spence’s new book Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man in TNR. Just the fact that there is a long rev...

Archaeology/China/English/General/Ming

The uses of the past

Posted on January 9, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been thinking about public history and the uses of the past a bit lately, and reading Craig Clunas’ Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social...

China/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity/Ming

Keeping Halal in the Ming dynasty

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 8 Comments

As regular readers know, I am interested in the question of how people are defined as Chinese. One nice bit of data comes from Hans Kuhner. He is looking at a p...

Archaeology/China/China-Korea/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Ming

A simple Miscellany

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Ralph Luker‘s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of 1421 by Bill Poser and friends (in two parts; note: Is Menzies just making up words in ...

Archaeology/Books/China/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Ming

Satire, self-parody and court jesters

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 20 Comments

I was looking for a good way to announce my new position as a member of the Carnival of Bad History team, when Geoff Wade sent this to H-Asia, and Prof. Goodman...

Archaeology/China/Events/General/Ming/Mongols and Mongolia

Tombs on Tuesday

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s been a good week for archaeology in the news, it seems: Liao tombs in Mongolia, of course Ming-era Imperial (eunuch) tombs near Beijing

Books/China/English/General/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Ming/Taiwan

Chasing Emperors

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

My wife found this pin in her collection, and has no recollection of how we got it. I did a little digging and found that the “Civil Air Patrol” was...

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