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Meihua and Longyan first daughter and second son of prominent families discover a powerful bond in their conflict with the centuriesold social codes of the Ming dynasty Although forbidden education Meihua secretly learns to read and write Longyan beset by a learning disability that dishonors his family and prevents him from becoming a scholar makes his mark as an outstanding military commander But soon he must choose between protecting the decaying Ming dynasty and joining the barbarian Manchus from beyond the Great WallLongyan and Meihua find themselves on opposite sides of this brutal struggle yet passion compels them to continue their liaison Torn between fighting the Manchu conquerors and working to heal their divided country they endure strife the torments of conflicting loyalties and ultimately exile
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Chinas sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblockprinted books What can surviving traces of that eras print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books considering them not merely as texts but as material objects and economic commodities designed produced and marketed to stand out in the distinctive book marketplace of the time and promising high enjoyment and usefulness to readers Although many of the massmarket commercial imprints studied here might have struck scholars from the eighteenth century on as too trivial lowbrow or slipshod to merit serious study they prove to be an invaluable resource providing insight into their readers orientations toward the increasingly complex global stage of early modernity and toward traditional Chinese conceptions of textual political and moral authority On a more intimate scale they tell us about readers ideals of a fashionable and pleasurable private life Through studying these works we come closer to recapturing the trendconscious sophisticated and often subversive ways readers at this important moment in Chinas history imagined their world and their place within it
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John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance but one which local history has left almost untouched for this detailed social history of Taiho county during the Ming dynasty Rather than making a sweeping general survey of the region he follows the careers of a large number of native sons and their relationship to Ming imperial politics Using previously unexplored primary sources Dardess details the rise and development of Taiho village kinship family lineage landscape agriculture and economy He follows its literati to positions of prominence in imperial government This concentration on the history of one county over almost three centuries gives rise to an unusually sound and immediate understanding of how Ming society functioned and changed over time
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The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s were of crucial importance in the late history of Chinanbsp But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644 it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transitionnbsp The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span of time leading up to and resulting from the tumult of the mid1600sThe fullest introduction in English to the MingChing transitionTom Fisher Pacific AffairsNo other recent work compares with its scope and no older work can stand up to the introduction of its new materials and perspectivesLibrary JournalThis book makes a valuable contribution to MingChing studies and should be required reading for anyone interested in the two dynastiesJames B Parsons American Historical Review
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In this Mingera novel historical narrative raucous humor and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money Her father terrified that his daughters demonic nature might be discovered marries her off Forced to flee she and others with supernatural abilities find themselves in the midst of a grotesque version of a historical uprising in which facts are intermingled with slapstick humor and wild fictionsAttributed to the writer Luo Guanzhong Quelling the Demons Revolt is centered on the events of the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 104748 But it is a distorted humorous version in which Wang Zes lieutenants show up as a comical peddler and a mysterious Daoist priest and a celebrated warrior appears despite having died many years earlier Rather than fantastic adventures and supernatural marvels the author points to human vanities and fixations as well as social injustice warning of the vulnerability of any pursuit of order in a world plagued by demonic forces as well as mundane corruption Although the story takes place long before the era in which it was written ultimately Quelling the Demons Revolt is the story of the Ming dynasty in Song masquerade presciently warning of the dynastys downfall The novel is divided into chapters but in many ways it is an arrangement of selfcontained stories that draw on vernacular storytelling This translation offers Englishspeaking readers a spirited example of social critique combined with caustic humor from the era of Luo Guanzhong
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The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a previously unexplored part of the beloved Assassins Creed universeChina 16th century The Assassins are gone Zhang Yong the relentless leader of the Eight Tigers took advantage of the emperoraposs death to eliminate all his opponents and now the Templars hold all the power Shao Jun the last representative of her clan barely escapes death and has no choice but to flee her homeland Vowing to avenge her former brothers in arms she travels to Europe to train with the legendary Ezio Auditore When she returns to the Middle Kingdom her saber and her determination alone will not be enough to eliminate Zhang Yong she will have to surround herself with allies and walk in the shadows to defeat the Eight Tigers
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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In this Mingera novel historical narrative raucous humor and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money Her father terrified that his daughters demonic nature might be discovered marries her off Forced to flee she and others with supernatural abilities find themselves in the midst of a grotesque version of a historical uprising in which facts are intermingled with slapstick humor and wild fictionsAttributed to the writer Luo Guanzhong Quelling the Demons Revolt is centered on the events of the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 104748 But it is a distorted humorous version in which Wang Zes lieutenants show up as a comical peddler and a mysterious Daoist priest and a celebrated warrior appears despite having died many years earlier Rather than fantastic adventures and supernatural marvels the author points to human vanities and fixations as well as social injustice warning of the vulnerability of any pursuit of order in a world plagued by demonic forces as well as mundane corruption Although the story takes place long before the era in which it was written ultimately Quelling the Demons Revolt is the story of the Ming dynasty in Song masquerade presciently warning of the dynastys downfall The novel is divided into chapters but in many ways it is an arrangement of selfcontained stories that draw on vernacular storytelling This translation offers Englishspeaking readers a spirited example of social critique combined with caustic humor from the era of Luo Guanzhong
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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