Society
For Ming Studies Society
For Ming Studies Journal of the Society for Ming Studies
Nos.
1-50 (pdf)
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Contents
NEWS NOTES
Society for Ming Studies Formed, Papers Presented at AAS Convention in Hawaii, Sinobiblia Catalogue, Ming History Research Guide, International Institute for Asian Studies, French Book on Zheng He, Ming Specialist at Shantou University, Ming-Qing Art Symposium, Ming Studies Web Page
ARTICLES
Kenneth James Hammond
Beyond Archaism: Wang Shizhen and the Legacy of the Northern Song
Ann Waltner
Breaking the Law: Family Violence, Gender and Hierarchy in the Legal Code of the Ming Dynasty
REPORTS
Jiang Yonglin
Report on the Sixth International Conference on Ming History (Fengyang, August 1995)
Xue Huiyin, Compiler; Jiang Yonglin and Jennifer Downs, Translators
Works on Ming History (1990)
Contents
NEWS NOTES
Affiliation with Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting of Society for Ming Studies, Seventh International Symposium on Ming History, International Convention of Asian Scholars, Roundtable on Construction of Local Identity in the Ming, Papers Presented at AAS Convention in Chicago, Ming Dynasty Houses Threatened with Destruction, Record Prices for Ming Furniture
ARTICLES
Jun Fang
The Military Triumvirate in the Southern Capital of the Ming Dynasty (A Research Note)
REPORT
Xue Huiyin, Compiler; Jiang Yonglin and Jennifer Downs, Translators
Works on Ming History (1991)
BOOK REVIEW
Peter Rushton, Review of
Chan Hok-lam, Liu Bowen yu Nocha Cheng: Legends of the Founding of Beijing
Contents
NEWS NOTES
Ming Furniture Exhibition, Growing Market for Ming Furniture, Seventh International Conference on Ming Studies, Smitskamp Oriental Antiquarium, Technical Research on East Asian Paintings
REPORT
Wan Ming; Translated by Xie Lihong
Ming History Research in China Since 1990
ARTICLE
Joseph S. C. Lam
Ming Music and Music History
Mary G. Mazur
The Four Zhu Yuanzhangs: A Succession of Biographies of the Ming Founder
DISSERTATION LISTING
Dietrich Tschanz
Doctoral Dissertations on Ming Topics, 1980-Present
Contents
NEWS NOTES
Annual Meeting of Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in Washington, Second Meeting of FEEGI, Contents of Mingshi Yanjiu No. 5.
ARTICLES
Peter Ditmanson
The Yongle Reign and the Transformation of Daoxue
Kenneth J. Hammond
The Decadent Chalice: A Critique of Late Ming Political Culture
Philip A. Kafalas
Weighty Matters, Weightless Form: Politics and the late Ming Xiaopin Writer
REVIEW ESSAY
Katherine Carlitz
Review of John W. Dardess, A Ming Society: T’ai-ho County, Kiangsi, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries and Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
BOOK REVIEW
Yuan Zhou
Review of Senkeido shomoku choshamei sakuin: gojuonjun (Author index to Qianqingtang bibliography: in phonetic order)
Ming Studies Number 40 is a special memorial dedicated to the memory of Professor Charles O. Hucker. It is guest-edited by Professor Romeyn Taylor.
Contents
NEWS NOTES
ARTICLES
Romeyn Taylor
Some Observations on the Life and Career of Charles Oscar Hucker 1919-1994: A Personal Note
Karen Turner
The Limits of the State: An Early Chinese Assessment
Thomas P. Massey
The Lan Yu Case and Early Ming Military and Society as Revealed in the Yuzhi nichenlu (Imperial record of rebellious ministers) of 1393
Lynn Struve
Enigma Variations: Huang Zhongxi’s "Expectation of a New Age"
Paul S. Ropp
"Now Cease Painting Eyebrows, Don a Scholar’s Cap and Pin", The Frustrated Ambition of Wang Yun, Gentry Woman Poet and Dramatist
REVIEW ESSAY
Timothy Brook
Picturing Clunas
BOOK REVIEW
Theodore Huters, R. Bin Wang, and Pauline Yu, eds., Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and CritiquesAnne Gerritsen
NUMBER 41 (Spring 1999)
Contents
NEWS NOTES
Annual Meeting of Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in Boston, New Journal Appears, Surviving Wall in Pingyao, Leidon Seminar on Late Ming Culture, Treatises on Military Affairs Translated, Peony Pavilion: The Saga Continued, Ming Furniture Conference in Minneapolis.
ARTICLES
Maram Epstein
Inscribing the Essentials: Culture and the Body in Ming-Qing Fiction
David M. Robinson
Korean Lobbying at the Ming Court: King Chungjong's Usurpation of 1506: A Research Note
REPORT
Gong Huayang , Compiler; Jiang Yonglin , Translator
Works on Ming History (1992)
BOOK REVIEWS
Ina Asim
Review of Hans Lothar Scheuring, Die Drachenfluß-Werft von Nanking. Das Lung-chiang ch'uan-ch'ang chih, eine Ming-zeitliche Quelle zur Geschichte des chinesischen Schiffbaus
John W.Dardess
Review of Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote, eds., The Cambridge History of China. Volume 8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2
NUMBER 42 (Fall 1999)
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
Ming Furniture Conference in Minneapolis, Seventh International Conference on Ming History (1997), Second Issue of Ming Studies Newsletter from Taiwan, Contents of Mingshi yanjiu Number 6, International Symposium at Nankai University, Peony Pavilion in New York, Peony Pavilion in Shanghai.
Wan Ming
Academic Conference on Overseas Sinology and the Cultural Exchanges between China and the Southeast Asia
Zujie Yuan
Report on the Eighth International Conference on Ming History (Shimen, August 1999)
ARTICLES
Bao Hua Hsieh
From Charwoman to Empress Dowager: Serving-Women in the Ming Palace
BOOK REVIEWS
Kimberly Besio
Review of Cyril Birch, Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theatre of the Ming
Kimberly Besio
Review of Robert E. Hegel, Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China
Catherine Swatek
Review of Joseph S.C. Lam, State Sacrifices and Music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, Creativity and Expressiveness
Philip Kafalas
Review of Yang Ye, trans., Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology
Contents
Letter from the Editor
REPORTS
News Notes
Death of Ray Huang, Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in San Diego, New Serial: Ming-Qing Luncong, Wolfgang Franke's Memoirs Published, Ming History in Changchun, Dissertation Abstract.
Dietrich Tschanz
Ming Dissertations: An Update
ARTICLES
Jiang Yonglin
Defending the Dynastic Order ina Local Society: Central Local Relations as Seen in a Late-Ming Magistrate's Enforcement of the Law
Thomas G. Nimick
A Twisted Tale of Love and Treachery in a Small County in Ming Times
BOOK REVIEWS
Shen Dingping; editing and annotation by Roger V. Des Forges
Review of Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett, eds., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty
Zhang Dexin
Review of Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett, eds., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty
Contents
Letter from the Editor
REPORTS
Obituary
James Peter Geiss
News Notes
Ming-Era Houses Demolished, European Association of Chinese Studies 13th Biennial Meeting, Taipei Conference on Ming Literati Collections and Ming Studies, Repatriation of Yongle dadian Volumes, Correction to Earlier Article.
Brief Note
Frederick W. Mote on the Chinese Translation of The Cambridge History of China
ARTICLES
Youngmin Kim
Rethinking the Self in Relation to the World in the Mid-Ming: The Responses of Chen Xianzhang, Hu Juren, Wang Yangming, and Zhan Ruoshui to Cheng-Zhu Learning
Kathryn Lowry
Three Ways to Read a Love Letter in Late Ming
Richard G. Wang
Practicing Erotic Fiction and Romanticizing Late Ming Writing Practice
BOOK REVIEWS
Lynn Struve
Review of Benjamin A. Elman, A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
NUMBER 45-46 COMBINED ISSUE (Spring & Fall 2001)
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in Chicago, Freer Gallery Exhibition, Book on Ming Historiography, The Plum in the Golden Vase, Contents of Mingdai yanjiu tongxun Number 3, Contents of Mingdai yanjiu tongxun Number 4, Contents of Ming-Qing luncong Number 2.
Jiang Yonglin
Report on the Ninth International Conference on Ming History
Dietrich Tschanz
Ming Dissertations: An Update
ARTICLES
Allan H. Barr
Jiang Yingke's Place in the Gongan School
Joseph Dennis
Between Lineage and State: Extended Family and Gazetteer Compilation in Xinchang County
Peter Ditmanson
Death in Fidelity: Mid- and Late-Ming Reconstructions of Fang Xiaoru
BOOK REVIEWS
Reports on a New Nianpu Series
Kathryn Lowry, Drawing on a Local Perspective: Xin bian Ming ren nianpu congkan
Nancy Norton Tomasko, Zhong Xing nianpu
Daniel Bryant, Shen Zhou nianpu
Katherine Carlitz, Kang Hai nianpu
Kenneth Hammond, Wang Shizhen nianpu
Sarah Schneewind
Review of Norman Kutcher, Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State
David M. Robinson
Review of Liew Foon Ming, The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368-1644)
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
From the Managing Editor, 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in Washington in 2002, EACS Conference in Moscow, Columbia Conference on Discourses and Practices in Imperial China, Sackler Gallery Exhibition on Bada Shanren, Controversial Book of Zheng He, Bulletin of Ming-Qing Studies, Leiden COnference on Wang Shizhen, Collections of Essays by Hok-lam Chan.
Wu Yanghong
Trends in Ming History Research in Mainland China
Fuma Susumu
Ming Studies in Japan, Part One (Beginnings to 1980), Translated by David Robinson
Thomas G. Nimick
Case Files from the Sichuan Provincial Administration Commission, With Annotated Index
ARTICLES
John Dardess
Protesting to the Death: The Fuque in Ming Political History
Harry Miller
Newly-Discovered Sources Sheds Light on Late Ming Faction: Reading Li Sancai's Fu Huai Xiao Cao
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Ditmanson
Review of Shih-shan Henry Tsai, Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
Changes to Minglist Address, Conference on Ming Court Culture, Wang Shizhen Conference held in Leiden, Singapore Conference on Southeast Asia in the 15th Century, ICAS3 Conference held in Singapore, Ming Jewelry Exhibition
ARTICLES
Li-ling Hsiao
Political Loyalty and Filial Piety: A Case Study in the Relational Dynamics of Text, Commentary, and Illustration in Pipa Ji
Steve B. Miles
From Small Fry to Big Fish: Representing the Rise of Jiujiang Township, Nanhai County, 1395-1657
BOOK REVIEWS
Kenneth M. Swope
Review of Robert J. Anthony, Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in LAte Imperial South China
Rania Huntington
Review of Daria Berg, Carnival in China: A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan zhuan
Philip A. Kafalas
Review of Julian Ward, Xu Xiake (1587-1641): The Art of Travel Writing
NUMBER 49, (Spring 2004)
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in San Diego in 2004, Ming History at the AHA Meeting, Videos Devoted to the Zheng He Voyages, Ming Porcelain Selling Well in Hong Kong, Bulletin of Ming-Qing Studies, International Symposium on Ming History
Kenneth Hammond
Wang Shizhen Conference Held in Leiden
Adrian Roberts
An Eyewitness Identified?
Wan Ming
Reflections on the Study of Zheng He's Expeditions
Special Issue on the Image of the First Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang
ARTICLES
Kenneth M. Swope
A Few Good Men: The Li Family and China's Northern Frontier in the Late Ming
Tian Yuan Tan (Chen Tianyuan)
Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal of the Emperor as Sage
BOOK REVIEWS
Kai-wing Chow
Review of Michael Szonyi, Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
Suzanne E. Wright
Review of Qianshen Bai, The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century
Regina Llamas
Review of Patricia Angela Sieber, Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Dramas,1300-2000
Contents
OBITUARIES
William Atwell
Frederick W. Mote
Robert Hymes and Sarah Schneewind
Jaret Weisfogel
REPORTS
Special Issue on the Image of the First Ming Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang
ARTICLES
Sarah Schneewind, Guest Editor
Introductory Note: Uses of the Ming Founder
Jaret Weisfogel
Invoking Zhu Yuanzhang: Guan Zhidao's Adaptations of the Ming Founder's Ritual Statutes to Late-Ming Jiangnan Society
Johan Elverskog
The Story of Zhu and Mongols of the Seventeenth Century
Martin W. Huang
Sage, Hero, Bandit: Zhu Yuanzhang's Image in the Sixteenth-Century Novel Yinglie zhuan
Deborah A. Sommer
Ming Taizu's Legacy as Iconoclast
Seung B.Kye
The Posthumous Image and Role of Ming Taizu in Korean Politics
BOOK REVIEWS
Edward L. Dreyer
Review of Gavin Menzies, 1421:The Year China Discovered America
Contents
OBITUARIES
Albert Chan, S. J.
Yamane Yukio
Publications of Frederick W. Mote
REPORTS
News Notes
2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies, Papers Presented at AAS in Chicago, Metropolitan Museum Yongle Exhibition, Ming Text Reading Seminar at Princeton, Singapore Conference on Chinese Overseas Migration, Veritable Records Entries on Southeast Asia, Workshop on Print Culture in China, One Hundred Years of Chinese Scholarship on Zheng He, Volume of Conference Papers on Zheng He Published, New Edition of Ma Huan in Chinese, Zheng He Exaggerations Continue to Multiply, Ricci Institue Broadening Research Focus, Activities at the Freer Gallery of Art
Wan Ming
Zheng He's Voyages to the Western Oceans
Sarah Schneewind
Research Note: The Village-Level Community Libations Ceremony in Early Ming Law
ARTICLES
Ong Chang Woei
Zhang Zai's Legacy and the Construction of Guanxue in Ming China
Matthew Fryslie
Inside Out: The Rhetoric of Derision in the Mingshi "Yandang zhuan"
BOOK REVIEWS
Josh Yiu
Review of Rose Kerr and Nigel Wood, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 12: Ceramic Technology
Index to Ming Studies, Nos. 1-50
Contents, Issues 1-50
Index to Authors, Titles of Works, and Selected Terms, Issues 1-50
Contents
Special Issue on the World of Wang Shizhen (Part 1)
Kenneth J. Hammond
Introduction
Sun Weiguo
Different Types of Scholar-Official in Sixteenth-century China: The Interlaced Careers of Wang Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng
Kenneth J. Hammond
Wang Shizhen as Partisan: The Case of Yang Jisheng
John D. Langlois, Jr.
The Reversal of the Death Verdict against Wang Shizhen's Father
Peter K. Bol
Looking to Wang Shizhen: Hu Yinglin (1551-1602) and Late-Ming Alternatives to Neo-Confucian Learning
Contents
REPORTS
News Notes
2006 Annual Meeting of the Society of Ming Studies, Papers Presented at the AAS in San Francisco in 2006, Roundtable on Period Journals, More Claims about Zheng He, Subway or Palace, Record Value for Ming Porcelain
Zhaohui He
Ming China in the Global Context: New Trends in Ming Studies in Mainland China
Jiang Yonglin and Sarah Schneewind
Report of the "International Conference on Ming Taizu and His Times" (Hong Kong, March 2006)
ARTICLES
Lucille Chia
Publications of the Ming Principalities: A Distinct Example of Private Printing
Jun Fang
The Political Functions of the Southern Capital in the Ming Dynasty
REVIEW ESSAY
Jennifer Purtle
Even Exchange: Craig Clunas' Elegant Debts and What Art History and Sinology Offer Eachother
Contents
REPORTS
Special Issue on the World of Wang Shizhen (Part 2)
Kenneth J. Hammond
Introduction
ARTICLES
Alison Hardie
"Massive Structure" or "Spacious Naturalness"? Aesthetic Choices in the Wang Families' Gardens in Taicang
Katherine Carlitz
Wang Shizhen and the Myth of Gui Youguang
Ann Waltner
Remembering the Lady Wei: Eulogy and Commemoration in Ming Dynasty China
MING TAIZU: AN EXCHANGE
Sarah Schneewind
Ming Taizu ex Machina?
Richard von Glahn
Ming Taizu ex Nihilo?