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The Vast Sea and Cloud Sails: Thematic Studies on Maritime Endeavors in the Ming Dynasty
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
This book offers an in-depth study of several aspects of maritime endeavors in the Ming dynasty, covering shipbuilding and navigation technologies, ma…
The Zhang Juzheng Biography You Can Finish in Half an Hour
· 2025
He was the Ming dynasty's greatest "minister who saved the times," and also the "solitary powerful minister" whose estate was confiscated and whose na…
One Hundred Faces of the Great Ming Dynasty
· 2025
16 emperors, 20 generals, 24 civil officials, 9 eunuchs, 13 powerful magnates, 12 women, and 6 imperial clansmen—100 of the most representative faces …
Biography of Wang Yangming (Quick Read Edition)
· 2024
Some say that when life feels lost, read Wang Yangming. This book vividly portrays the legendary life of Wang Yangming. A bright and curious child, he…
Record of Events in Yunzhong
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious th…
Strategy
· 2024
Traditional Chinese culture has a long intellectual history, marked by high originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Its early thought forms …
Record of Emperor Xizong's Mourning Observance
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are strikingly d…
Remaining Talks on Streams and Mountains
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are especially di…
Drafts from the Cricket Studio
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Its early forms are …
The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024
Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features: relig…
Record of a Journey Through the Western Regions
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are especially di…
Daily Record of the Western Campaign
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
A Record of Suppressing Rebellion
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive fe…
A Record of Meritorious Officials in the Jingnan Campaign
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive:…
A Record of Pacifying the Barbarians
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms have distinctive…
Wang Yangming's Teaching of Extending Innate Knowledge
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
The Ming philosopher Wang Yangming's doctrine of "extending innate knowledge" (zhi liangzhi) is the most central proposition of Yangming learning, for…
Ten Lectures on Yangming Studies
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
"To traditional Chinese society, Wang Yangming was a maverick." From childhood he chafed at rules, disliked "the staid, well-trodden path of Confucian…
Compendium of Chinese Family Instructions through the Ages · Ming Volume: In Learning, Nothing Precedes Setting One's Resolve
Hohai University Press · 2021
This five-volume series is a collection of classic family instructions written by notable Chinese figures from the Zhou dynasty through the Qing dynas…
Zhu Yuanzhang
China Overseas Publishing House · 2022
Among the founding emperors of successive dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang was a formidable figure who rose from a peasant uprising. What he changed was not o…
Selected Poems of Qi Jiguang
· 2021
Qi Jiguang was a renowned Ming-dynasty general celebrated for resisting Japanese pirates. A man of elegant temperament and fond of reading, amid the p…