Kenneth M Swope (editor) - The Ming World

THE MING WORLD

The Ming World draws together scholars from all over the world to bring Chinas Ming Dynasty ( 1368 1662 ) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world.

The book is designed to replicate the structure of popular Ming-era unofficial histories that gathered information and gossip from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Engaging with a broad array of primary and secondary sources, the authors build upon earlier scholarship while extending the field to embrace new theories, methodologies, and interpretive frameworks. It is divided into five thematically linked sections: Institutions, Ideas, Identities, Individuals, and Interactions.

Unique in its breadth and scope, The Ming World is essential reading for scholars and postgraduates of early modern China, the history of East Asia and anyone interested in gaining a broader picture of the colorful Ming world and its inhabitants.

Kenneth M. Swope is Professor of History and Senior Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also a board member of the Chinese Military History Society and the book review editor for The Journal of Chinese Military History . His publications include A Dragons Head and a Serpents Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592 1598 ; The Military Collapse of Chinas Ming Dynasty, 1618 1644 ; On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing Transition .

THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS

THE GOTHIC WORLD
Edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend

THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Edited by DMaris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and William OReilly

THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim

THE SUMERIAN WORLD
Edited by Harriet Crawford

THE OCCULT WORLD
Edited by Christopher Partridge

THE WORLD OF INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA
Edited by Robert Warrior

THE WORLD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Edited by Andrew Shankman

THE SHAKESPEAREAN WORLD
Edited by Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby

THE WORLD OF COLONIAL AMERICA
Edited by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz

THE MODERNIST WORLD
Edited by Allana Lindgren and Stephen Ross

THE EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD, SECOND EDITION
Edited by Philip F. Esler

THE SWAHILI WORLD
Edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette

THE SYRIAC WORLD
Edited by Daniel King

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD, SECOND EDITION
Edited by Peter Linehan, Janet L. Nelson, and Marios Costambeys

THE ELAMITE WORLD
Edited by Javier lvarez-Mon, Gian Pietro Basello, and Yasmina Wicks

THE FAIRY TALE WORLD
Edited by Andrew Teverson

THE ANDEAN WORLD
Edited by Linda J. Seligmann and Kathleen Fine-Dare

THE MELANESIAN WORLD
Edited by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason

THE MING WORLD
Edited by Kenneth M. Swope

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THE MING WORLD

Edited by

Kenneth M. Swope

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Names: Swope, Kenneth, 1969 - editor.
Title: The Ming world / edited by Kenneth M. Swope.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019 . | Series: The Routledge worlds | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019014819 (print) | LCCN 2019018688 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429318719 (eBook) | ISBN 9781138190986 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780429318719 (ebk.)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaHistoryMing dynasty, 13681644 .
Classification: LCC DS (ebook) | LCC DS .M 6355 2019 (print) | DDC 951/.026 dc
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/ 2019014819

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ISBN: --- 31871 - (ebk)

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Tonio Andrade is Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Emory University.

Aurelia Campbell is Assistant Professor at Boston College, specializing in Ming dynasty Chinese architectural history.

Sally K. Church is an Affiliated Researcher of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Edward L. Farmer is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

Kenneth R. Hall is Professor of History at Ball State University, recently completed a Fulbright research assignment in India producing a monograph on the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean Pre- 1500 .

Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University.

Xing Hang is Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University.

Masato Hasegawa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Yuming He is Associate Professor of Chinese and Chancellors Fellow at the University of California, Davis.

Roland L. Higgins is an independent scholar. He just finished a fifty-year career teaching East Asian and world history at the collegiate level.

George L. Israel is Associate Professor of History at Middle Georgia State University.

Hsiao Li-ling is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina.

Joseph S. C. Lam is Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan.

Ivy Maria Lim is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Head of the Humanities and Social Studies Education in the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Luk Yu-ping is Basil Gray Curator: Chinese Paintings, Prints and Central Asian Collection of the Asia Department at the British Museum.

Thomas G. Nimick is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Leo K. Shin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.