Ming China and its Allies
Title | Ming China and its Allies PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Robinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2020-01-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108489222 |
Explores the Ming Dynasty's foreign relations with neighboring sovereigns, placing China in a wider global context.
In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire
Title | In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Robinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 387 |
Release | 2019-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108482449 |
Memories of the Mongol Empire loomed large in fourteenth-century Eurasia. Robinson explores how Ming China exploited these memories for its own purposes.
The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44
Title | The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth M. Swope |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2014-01-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134462093 |
This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a planned invasion of China. In contrast to conventional explanations for the Ming’s collapse, which focus upon political and socio-economic factors, this book shows how the military collapse of the Ming state was intimately connected to the deterioration of the personal relationship between the Ming throne and the military establishment that had served as the cornerstone of the Ming military renaissance of the previous decades. Moreover, it examines the broader process of the militarization of late Ming society as a whole to arrive at an understanding of how a state with such tremendous military resources and potential could be defeated by numerically and technologically inferior foes. It concludes with a consideration of the fall of the Ming in light of contemporary conflicts and regime changes around the globe, drawing attention to climatological factors and developments outside state control. Utilizing recently released archival materials, this book adds a much needed piece to the puzzle of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in China.
East Asia in the World
Title | East Asia in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan Haggard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108479871 |
This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
The Ming World
Title | The Ming World PDF eBook |
Author | Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 562 |
Release | 2021-06-30 |
Genre | China |
ISBN | 9781032090207 |
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. The book is designed to replicate the structure of popular Ming-era unofficial histories that gathered information and gossip from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Engaging with a broad array of primary and secondary sources, the authors build upon earlier scholarship while extending the field to embrace new theories, methodologies, and interpretive frameworks. It is divided into five thematically linked sections: Institutions, Ideas, Identities, Individuals, and Interactions. Unique in its breadth and scope, The Ming World is essential reading for scholars and postgraduates of early modern China, the history of East Asia and anyone interested in gaining a broader picture of the colorful Ming world and its inhabitants.
Male Friendship in Ming China
Title | Male Friendship in Ming China PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Huang |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047419588 |
This is the first interdisciplinary effort to study friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Friendship was valorized with unprecedented enthusiasm in Ming China (1368-1644). Some Ming literati even proposed that friendship was the most fundamental relationship among the so-called “five cardinal human relationships”. Why the cult of friendship in Ming China? How was male friendship theorized, practiced and represented during that period? These are some of the questions the current volume deals with. Coming from different disciplines (history, musicology and literary studies), the contributors thoroughly explore the complexities and the gendered nature of friendship in Ming China. This volume has also been published as a special theme issue of Brill's journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in China.
Ming China and Vietnam
Title | Ming China and Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Kathlene Baldanza |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316531317 |
Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on sources and viewpoints from both sides of the border, for a truly transnational history of Sino-Viet relations. Kathlene Baldanza offers a detailed examination of geopolitical and cultural relations between Ming China (1368–1644) and Dai Viet, the state that would go on to become Vietnam. She highlights the internal debates and external alliances that characterized their diplomatic and military relations in the pre-modern period, showing especially that Vietnamese patronage of East Asian classical culture posed an ideological threat to Chinese states. Baldanza presents an analysis of seven linked biographies of Chinese and Vietnamese border-crossers whose lives illustrate the entangled histories of those countries.