Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2020.1736862
Hilde De Weerdt, Xiong Huei-Lan, Li Jialong
In this report we briefly introduce the rationale behind a pilot project that is meant to serve as a test case for the feasibility of a longue-durée historical investigation of large-scale material infrastructures. The larger project is aimed at a critical analysis of how large-scale infrastructures such as roads, city walls, and bridges have contributed to regional and empire-wide integration, but equally why and how processes of integration regularly broke down, and how large-scale infrastructure projects contributed to countervailing trends including local tension, local autonomy, and cross-border regional formations.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2020.1721949
Jaeyoon Song
In the early Ming (1368-1644), the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋, 1328-1398, r. 1368-1398) established more than twenty princedoms across the empire. Scholarship to date has generally emphasized the continuance of the Yuan (1271-1368) institutions into the early Ming. Apart from the endurance of Yuan legacy, this article addresses how Zhu Yuanzhang ideologically framed and justified the establishment of princedoms. By showing the possible influences of Southern Song (1127-1279) statecraft traditions on early Ming legislation, this article argues that Zhu Yuanzhang sought to construct the enduring system of government by drawing on the classic model of “divide and rule,” as suggested in the Confucian Classics. In their turn, the literati who advised Zhu Yuanzhang in the making of the Ming empire sought to secure their own realms of autonomy and influence in local society by upholding the fengjian doctrine and presenting themselves as the later counterparts of the ancient feudal vassals who “shared” in the governance of their country and “ruled” on behalf of their emperors.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2020.1735825
Aurelia Campbell
Wen-shing Chou's first book, Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain, provides a stimulating account of the cultural, religious, and political engagements of Inner Asian Buddhists with M...
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037x.2020.1739384
Li Yang
Q1: To what extent do you see yourself as a Ming scholar? How would you describe yourself?WP: I have thought of myself, almost from the beginning, more as a seventeenth-century historian rather tha...
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2020.1741906
Yongtao Du
The geographical scale of locality has never been clearly defined in the recent “localist turn” scholarship on late imperial China: “the local” there could refer to a county, a prefecture, and occasionally a region that contains more than one prefecture. One cause of this scalar inexactitude can be found in the intellectual trajectory of the local history orientation in Chinese studies. Another, probably more important cause is that historical actors themselves in the late imperial period kept the scale of locality fluid in their performances of local identity and their practices of local activism. Behind this fluidity may hide some crucial yet unexplored issues of both locality and localism in late imperial China. This article takes as an example the controversy over the “head tax on silk” (rending sijuan, 人丁絲捐) that broke out in the Huizhou (徽州) Prefecture in 1577 to illuminate the flexibility of scale in local identity formation, as well as the poverty of locality as a source of political loyalty.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2020.1747848
Ming News, D. Schäfer
“This exhibition illustrates a transitory time range in the 17th century, a period that was both intriguing and full of various possibilities. From the perspective of the modern material culture studies, not only we can glance into the story of adventurers that explored new water channels through hardships, under the scope of the East and West exchanges, but also from the viewpoint of the district Jiangnan, to understand the seemingly ordinary, but in fact detail-oriented quality of the literati families’ daily rituals. The curatorial focus concentrates on the ‘calligraphy and painting’ and ‘objects,’ the two chapters extracted from ‘Treatise on Superfluous Things’ that was written by the modest literati Wen Zhenheng (1586–1645) in the 17th century. In addition to rediscover the cultural contexts embedded by the museum’s collection, it is also the purpose to explore the fine elements of the ancients’ appreciation towards the objects. Along the process, the picture of related social network is built up and the gradual trend to admire the antiquarian style, which had placed influence on general home accessories is also clarified. The purpose is unfolded by examining the ancient mindsets about one’s belongings and then look into the relationship between human and objects in the modern days.” [From the webpage. See https://www.npm.gov.tw/en/Article.aspx?sNo=04010912]
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2019.1656436
Ying Zhang
The title of Maria Franca Sibau’s book, Reading for the Moral, encapsulates the author’s multiple analytical agendas. First, it reflects Sibau’s insight that late-Ming short fictions integrated com...
Maria Franca Sibau的书名《为道德而阅读》概括了作者的多重分析议程。其一，反映了西伯对晚明短篇小说整合社会文化的深刻认识。。。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2019.1668183
Yenna Wu
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2019.1640506
R. Zhang
Literary studies on the aesthetics of performance in the late Ming have paid scant attention to critics’ poetic writings as a form to express their thoughts and feelings toward performance. This paper examines poems by Zang Maoxun (1550–1620), collected in Fubao tang ji, as well as poems by his social coterie in Jinling and Wuxing, that focus on the social and poetic aspects of performance. In recent scholarly discourse, Zang Maoxun’s role as editor and publisher of Yuan performative texts has been well covered, but neither his status as a poet nor the poetic exchanges within his social network have been properly investigated as sources for information on Chinese theater. This paper focuses on non-dramatic forms of literature, poetry in particular, in order to unveil the social occasions that precipitated his poetic compositions and the treatment of musical performance in his poetry.
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