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Ming Taizu on the Yuan Dynasty: between Ethnicity and Legitimation
No full textMing dynasty has often been depicted as the victorious restoration of Han Chinese domination on Mongol tribes. I will try to show that the negative references to the origin of the foreign Yuan, which apparently are at odds with the praise to Qubilai, are instrumental in the construction of Ming Taizu’s legitimacy as the founder of a new dynasty. The Yuan legacy was, in fact, profound, as demonstrated by the institutional, legal and military elements derived from the previous dynasty. For this purpose, I will examine specific statements by Ming Taizu both on the Yuan dynasty and on its founder Shizu (Qubilai), recorded in official sources such as the Veritable Records, and I will also draw on some more “personal” writings, such as the Ming Taizu ji 明太祖集, among the huge number of documents written by the emperor himself
Elke Papelitzky, Writing World History in Late Ming China and the Perception of Maritime Asia, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2020, pp.240
No full textAliens and emperors: Mongolian faithful officials in the Ming History
No full textThe nine biographies of Mongol officials recorded in the Ming History are not only a useful element to trace the Mongol enduring presence at the highest levels of Ming court, but also a political way to demonstrate the close and continuous relation with this ethnic group until the very end of the dynasty. Besides, since the History was compiled under the Manchu dynasty’s auspices, it may give some hints about their own relation with the Mongol allies
Elisabeth Kindall, Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son. The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609-1673), Harvard East Asian monographs 389, Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 2016, xviii-481, ISBN 978-0.674-08843-6
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역사와 문학: 중국의 기이한 이야기들의 기원과 발전 (Tra Storia e Letteratura: origine e sviluppi dei racconti del mistero in Cina)
No full textNella tradizione cinese sono moltissime le storie che riguardano eventi magici, miracolosi o sorprendenti in cui personaggi comuni si trovano ad incontrare creature bizzarre, soprannaturali, spesso travestite o celate in apparenze umane. Sono frequenti diversi animali, comuni o mitologici, che talvolta si trasformano in altri o assumono forma umana allo scopo di ingannare o almeno di prendersi gioco di coloro che hanno la malasorte di incontrarli. In alcuni casi essi possono svolgere anche una funzione positiva, e persino salvifica, a condizione che siano rispettati i valori fondamentali di virtù e buona educazione. Infatti, essi rappresentano un collegamento tra il mondo degli umani e quello degli spiriti, tra la terra e il Cielo, e rappresentano una parte importante delle credenze popolari, tanto da essere menzionati anche dal grande storico Sima Qian 司馬遷 (145-86 a.C.) nella sua opera monumentale Shiji 史記,non solo in relazione ad un passato lontano che si perde nella leggenda, ma persino per la nascita miracolosa di Liu Bang 劉邦 (247?-195 a.C.), fondatore della dinastia Han, che avvenne appena un secolo prima del suo tempo. Generalmente, tali riferimenti nell’ambito storiografico hanno anche una valenza politica: la presenza degli spiriti accanto ai sovrani fornisce loro una legittimazione maggiore e li inserisce in un contesto di eccezionalità che giustifica il loro potere
Dalu Yuquan e gli altri: funzionari mongoli alla corte dei Ming
No full textThis paper aims at examining the great officers of Mongolian origin who remained in China after the fall of the Yaun dynasty in 1368 and who held positions of some importance at the Ming court, deserving to be counted among those who constitute the exempla in the biographical section of the official history. Through these people, I intend to shed some light about the complex Sino-Mongolian relations in the Ming dynasty and maybe also to draw some conclusions about the position of Mongol allies in the Qing political agenda
Gang Zhao, The Qing Opening to the Ocean. Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2013, Pp. viii-267
No full textImmagini del Nanyang. Realtà e stereotipi nella storiografia cinese verso la fine della dinastia Ming
No full textImperial Geography and Fatherly Benevolence. The Chinese World Order and the Construction of its Margins
No full textThis chapter analyses geographic concepts and ideas, and their influence on concrete actions in Ming China (14th–17th c.). Outlining the basic traits of Chinese world order, in which the Emperor (or rather the ‘Son of Heaven’) claimed to rule over the whole world, it discusses the influence of a geographic order that focused on society and culture as being situated at the centre of the world and at once identical with the centre of civilization. Drawing on Chinese sources on Southeast Asia, this chapter demonstrates, how this order could still provide for interactions with foreign rulers that were based on privileges and a tributary system: Chinese concepts of order included foreign peoples by assigning them specific places and obligations according to categories that included their geographical location or their political proximity to the empire. As a consequence, the diplomatic ritual was shaped according to these basic assumptions, as a choice of exemplary cases shows. The cosmological order of the empire, i.e. of the whole inhabited world, was put into action
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