Society For Ming Studies
Society For Ming Studies Organizations
Geiss
Foundation
founded in memory of James Geiss in support of Ming research
Ming-Ch'ing
Studies at Academia
Sinica, Nan-kang, Taiwan
Reference Tools
Southeast
Asia in the Ming shilu database compiled by
Geoff
Wade, National University of Singapore
Classical
Historiography for Chinese History by Benjamin Elman, Princeton
University
Guide to Ming Studies compiled
by Leo K. Shin, University of British Columbia
Maps
China
Historical GIS
China
in Maps: 16th - 19th Century (by Europeans) From the Special
Collection
of the
Hong
Kong University of Science & Technology Library
Map
of Ming China at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Maps
from Ming period (high-resolution) at Zhongguo
guditu (Ancient Chinese Maps) (includes 1398 Daming hunyitu, 1590 map of Grand
Canal, maps of Zheng He's voyages and others)
Documents and Information Sites
Achaeology
Maritime
Asia (source for
information on shipwrecks from Song to 19th century, including good
images of ceramics, information about ship construction, etc)
Mingwrecks (Commercial link, but
with good images of recovered ceramics)
Art and Architecture
Colorful
Lanterns of Shangyuan (Ina Asim's Interactive CD Project)
Figure
Painting of the Middle Ming Dynasty at the National
Palace Museum in Taiwan
Homes and Gardens (including Ming
materials at the Visual
Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
Ming Dynasty at the MET
Porcelain
image at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Porcelain
image at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Suzhou
Gardens Website
Ming Painters at Artcylcopedia (Auction
info., image archives, museum possessions, etc): Wei
Jiuding, T'ao Ch'eng, Lin Liang, Shen Chou, Guo Xu, Tang Yin, Wen
Zhengming, Lu Zhi, Wang Wen, Liu Shiru, Ding
Yunpeng, Dong
Qichang, Hou
Mougong, Zhang Hong, Lan Ying, Xiao
Yuncong, Chen
Hongshou, Chang
Chi-shu, Hongren, Sheng
Maoye, Zha
Shibiao, Gong Xian, Bada
Shanren, Zhu Da, Wang Hui,
Wu Li, Yun
Shouping, Shitao, Wang
Yuangi.
International Relations
Hsu
Kuang-chi: Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617 at Paul Halsall's
East
Asian History Sourcebook
Matteo
Ricci on the Art of (Chinese) Printing at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Père
du Halde: The Chinese Educational System, c. 1575 CE at Paul
Halsall's
East
Asian History Sourcebook
Père
du Halde: Teaching Science to the Manchu Emperor, c. 1680 at
Paul
Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Père
du Halde: The Manchu Emperor and Chinese Music, c. 1680 at
Paul
Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Père
du Halde: Chinese Punishments, c. 1680 at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
The Ricci 21st
Century Roundtable on the History of Christianity in China at
the
Ricci
Institute
Silk
Road Seattle at University of Washington (Historical Texts
section
includes translated documents from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
Missionaries and Mandarins: The Jesuits in
China (sample pages of texts by Jesuits) at Library of
Congress Vatican
Exhibit
Literature
Han
Koong Tsu (Han gong qiu, Autumn of the Palace of Han) at
Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook (1917 translation with odd romanization
and
songs removed)
Ming
Neifu
edition of Lienu zhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Women)
at University
of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center
Gao
Ming's Pipa ji (The Lute) 1599 blockprint edition at
the
Royal
Danish Library.
Shi
Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong's Shuihu zhuan (The Water Margin)
fragments from c.1600 blockprint edition at the Royal
Danish Library.
Military
Canon
circa 1368 at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Music
John
Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither includes much material
from Ming musical handbooks.
Politics
Zhu
Yuanzhang: Manifesto of Accession as First Ming Emperor, 1372 C.E.
at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Image
of Zhu Yuanzhang at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Image
of Beijing City Wall at Paul Halsall's East
Asian History Sourcebook
Philosophy
Chinese
Philosophical Etext Archive, by Steve Angle (includes Wang
Yangming's
Chuan
xi lu)
Ming
Zhengtong Daozang (in process of being completely scanned) at
James
Miller's Daoist
Studies Website
Social History
Music
John
Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither
