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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ming Dynasty"”.
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A history of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen
… of the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen from the Ming dynasty to the present day, but with special emphasis on the Ming and Qing periods. After a chronological survey of the town's history from earliest times to 1949, various aspects of the production and distribution of porcelain are considered: …
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Local Identity in a Capital: Negotiating the Local and the National in Late Ming Nanjing
… investigates how the native literati in late Ming Nanjing visualized their identity in terms of the local or the national. By analyzing 3 different genres of works by these literati (the biji, pictorial guides and religious writings), I argue that they attempted to create a local identity by …
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昙阳子信仰的建立兼论晚明文人宗教的特点 = BUILDING THE CULT OF TANYANGZI: A DISCUSSION OF LITERATI RELIGION IN LATE MING DYNASTY
… TANYANGZI IS AN EXAMPLE. ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE MING LITERATI, THE CULT OF TANYANGZI SPREAD AND DEVELOPED MOSTLY WITHIN THE CIRCLE OF THE LITERATI AND GENTLEMEN, AND WAS THUS INFLUENCED DEEPLY BY THE CULTURE OF THE LITERATI. THE POLITICAL STATUS OF THE LITERATI DURING THE WANLI ERA, THE …
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Concubines in Chinese society from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries
… concubinage during and immediately after the Ming dynasty. The source materials used include both official and unofficial histories, biographies, and documents, legal case tales, fictional sources, modern historical works, and fictional materials. Four aspects of concubinage are analyzed: …
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VALUING EMOTIONS (QING) AND SENTIMENTALITY: THE AESTHETIC CHANGES OF LYRIC (CI) IN LATE MING AND EARLY QING
From late Ming to early Qing, song lyric, or ci, experienced stylistic transformation, and the previous decline of ci in the Ming dynasty also witnessed a renaissance in the Qing. This dissertation attempts to study the internal factor of these changes by analyzing the aesthetic trend of valuing …
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Nanjing City Wall: embodied heritage in wallscape
… largest city walls in China. As the capital of Ming Dynasty between 1368-1420 CE, the wall was built to protect the city. A four-wall system separated the royal palace in the city from the countryside. After approximately six hundred years of damage by humans and nature, the importance of this …
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Preying on the predator : the shark fin controversy
… consumption of shark fin soup dates back to the Ming Dynasty in China, when it was served to emperors. Today, the cultural delicacy represents wealth, status, and power. Over the past 30 years, with the rising middle class in China, the demand for shark fins has surged. To address the increasing …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from northeast Asia—was experienced first-hand by several Jesuit missionaries proselytising in China. During the unstable interregnum, Jesuits sought patronage from …
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Consoling frustrated scholars: a copy of a parting gift by Wen Zhengming
Farewell in the Garden is a Qing dynasty (1644-1911) copy of a parting gift painted by Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) for his student Wang Chong (1494-1533) to mark the occasion of Wang Chong’s visit before he left to write the civil service examination. In addition to this painting, three other …
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Ruling the Dead: Rulership, Spirit Pacification, and the Water-Land Retreat in Fourteenth-Century East Asia
… East Asia, the Ashikaga shogunate in 1336, the Ming dynasty in 1368, and the Joseon dynasty in 1392, the respective founders engaged in traditional measures of mass spirit pacification. They constructed temples, commissioned scripture-copying and scripture-recital, and sponsored rituals for the …
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Like Life: Royal Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Ritual Context
… these portraits changed over the course of the dynasty. For the latter, I use the history of the imperial portraits of the Ming Dynasty as a foil. The fifth chapter notes the emergence of several repositories in the late Joseon period and discusses portraits of certain late Joseon kings that …
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Toward an Extraordinary Everyday: Li Yu's (1611-1680) Vision, Writing, and Practice
… were best sellers was rife with novelty. The Ming dynasty had collapsed in 1644, yet many of its defining features remained: urban centers brimmed with gadgets, both Chinese and foreign, that offered new possibilities for engaging the material world. The status of writing and the reading …
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Reading Stories Old and New: The Poetics of Paratext in Gujin xiaoshuo
… literary work such as Feng Menglong’s late Ming dynasty collection of <italic>huaben</italic> (short vernacular fiction) known as <italic>Gujin xiaoshuo</italic> (Stories Old and New,</p><p>published ca. 1621 C.E.) may be thought of as the combination of its primary text (that is, the text …