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A Miscellany of Ming Dynasty Life
Shantou University Press · 2008
A Miscellany of Ming Dynasty Life is a popular history and culture book that reconstructs daily life in the Ming dynasty through its details. The auth…
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2016
This book is the representative work of the Canadian sinologist Timothy Brook, originally published in English as The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce…
The Young Grand Secretary
Little Pavilion Elder is a historical time-travel novel by Sanjie Dashi, a platinum author on Yuewen Group’s Qidian platform, where it was serialized …
Snow-Hidden Egret: Sensuality and Nothingness in The Plum in the Golden Vase
Yilin Press · 2025
This book is a representative study of The Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin Ping Mei) by the novelist and scholar Ge Fei, divided into three volumes. Volu…
Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China: 1100–1700
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025
This book is the author's representative work, the culmination of more than a decade of dedicated research on Ming dynasty local gazetteers. Centered …
A New Book on Preventing Fraud
中文在线数字出版集团股份有限公司 · 2024
Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality.…
The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Chronicle of Strange Cases in the Ming Dynasty: Hongxi Volume
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2026
Only ten months of reign, yet it left several cases of "thunderous reversals": the Court of Imperial Entertainments fake-edict case, the concealed hur…
Chronicle of Strange Cases in the Ming Dynasty: Xuande Volume
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2026
The Ming Dynasty Strange Cases: Xuande Volume is here! The 1430s, praised by historians as the "Ren-Xuan Golden Age," split into 33 dark fissures in t…
The Stone Nods (One Book Captures All the Joys and Sorrows of Ming Dynasty Urban Life)
· 2026
A Ming-dynasty collection of imitative huaben fiction themed on "rewarding good and punishing evil," drawing on life across social classes and telling…
New Nobles of the Zhu Ming: The New Official Class in the Ming Dynasty, Its Social, Political, and Cultural Relations and Life
· 2025
Renowned Ming historian Wu Han wrote The New Official Class of the Ming Dynasty: Its Social, Political, and Cultural Relations and Life in 1943. It is…
Unofficial History of the Jade Pot
· 2025
A Ming dynasty unofficial-history notebook recording court and commoner anecdotes, literati trivia, and customs. It exposes the hidden rules of offici…
Studies in Ming Dynasty Heart-Mind Learning: Baisha Learning, Ganquan Learning, and Yangming Learning
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
The book opens by explicitly proposing that "School of Mind is not Neo-Confucianism," rejecting the long-standing scholarly label "Song-Ming Neo-Confu…
Mysteries of Ming Dynasty History: A Journey of Exploration and Uncovering Secrets
Heilongjiang Northeast Digital Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. · 2025
Leads readers through the mysteries of Ming history—from the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen and the truth behind the Red Pill Case to the purpose of Z…
100 Little-Known Facts About the Ming Dynasty
· 2025
Think the Ming dynasty was all about the Jinyi Guards and Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean? The 100 Trivia Facts About the Ming Dynasty will tu…
Record of the Flying Sword
赤尔斯 · 2025
Feijian Ji (The Tale of the Flying Sword) is a classic of Ming-dynasty supernatural fiction, telling the legend of Lü Dongbin, who cultivates from mor…
The Mistake of Greedy Delight: A Banned Qing-Dynasty Erotic Book
· 2024
This is a collection of Ming-dynasty vernacular short stories (nihuaben) in the shiqing (everyday-life) genre. It consists of six chapters and was com…
Slapping the Table in Amazement: First Series (Volume Two)
· 2024
First Slap at the Table, Volume Two is a collection of vernacular short stories in the擬huaben style compiled by Ling Mengchu in the late Ming dynasty.…
Classic Vernacular Short Stories: Stories to Awaken the World (5)
· 2024
Stories to Awaken the World is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by the late-Ming writer Feng Menglong. It was first printed in the se…
The Complete Stories to Awaken the World
· 2024
The Complete Stories to Awaken the World is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by the late-Ming writer Feng Menglong. It was first publ…