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Ming China, 1368-1644
Language: en
Pages: 173
Authors: John W. Dardess
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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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 thematica
The Confusions of Pleasure
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Timothy Brook
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-18 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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 Eu
The Culture of Language in Ming China
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Nathan Vedal
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-13 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing p
Falling in Love
Language: en
Pages: 284
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Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strict
Ming China and its Allies
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: David M. Robinson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores the Ming Dynasty's foreign relations with neighboring sovereigns, placing China in a wider global context.