Society For
Ming Studies Journal of the Society for Ming Studies

Ming Studies (ISSN 0147-037X) is a refereed journal concerned with scholarship on all aspects of Chinese society and culture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The Society for Ming Studies is pleased to announce that the journal is now being published by Maney Publishing.
Inquiries about subscription and other business should be directed to: www.maney.co.uk/journals/mng
EDITOR
Keenneth J. Hammond, Department of History, New Mexico State University, P.O Box 30001, MSC 3H, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 E-mail: khammond@nmsu.edu
EDITORIAL BOARD
Anita M. Andrew (Northern Illinois University)
Ina Asim (University of Oregon)
Kimberly Besio (Colby College)
Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia)
Katy Carlitz (University of Pittsburgh)
Willard Peterson (Princeton University)
Leo Shin (University of British Columbia)
Ann Waltner (University of Minnesota)
John E. Wills (University of Southern California)