Culture, courtiers, and competition
Subtitle: the Ming court (1368-1644)
By: edited by David M. Robinson.
Contributors: Robinson, David M., 1965-
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 301
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780674028234
Subjects: China -- Court and courtiers
Other titles: Ming court (1368-1644)
Description: "Drawing from various disciplines and incorporating a wide range of documentary sources, artifacts, and foreign accounts, this collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, processes driven by immediate and keenly felt personal imperatives, mediated through social, political, and cultural interaction."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David M. Robinson; title: The Ming Court / David M. Robinson; title: Bestowing the Double-edged Sword: Wanli as Supreme Military Commander / Kenneth M. Swope; title: The Eunuch Agency Directorate of  Ceremonial and the Ming Imperial Publishing Enterprise / Scarlett Jang; title: The Jiajing Emperor's Interaction with  His Lecturers / Hung-lam Chu; title: Didactic Picturebooks for Late Ming  Emperors  and Princes / Julia K. Murray; title: Imperial Agency in Ming Music Culture / Joseph S. C. Lam; title: Tibetan Buddhism and the Creation of the  Ming Imperial Image / Dora C. Y. Ching; title: The Ming Court and the Legacy of the Yuan Mongols / David M. Robinson. 423