The Imperial Ming Tombs

The Imperial Ming Tombs
Author: Ann Paludan
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1981
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300025118

Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China

Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China
Author: James L. Watson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520071292

During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.

What the Emperor Built

What the Emperor Built
Author: Aurelia Campbell
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0295746890

One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden City, directing ambitious naval expeditions, and creating the world’s largest encyclopedia. What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of a single Chinese emperor. Focusing on the imperial palaces in Beijing, a Daoist architectural complex on Mount Wudang, and a Buddhist temple on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, Aurelia Campbell demonstrates how the siting, design, and use of Yongle’s palaces and temples helped cement his authority and legitimize his usurpation of power. Campbell offers insight into Yongle’s sense of empire—from the far-flung locations in which he built, to the distant regions from which he extracted construction materials, and to the use of tens of thousands of craftsmen and other laborers. Through his constructions, Yongle connected himself to the divine, interacted with his subjects, and extended imperial influence across space and time. Spanning issues of architectural design and construction technologies, this deft analysis reveals remarkable advancements in timber-frame construction and implements an art-historical approach to examine patronage, audience, and reception, situating the buildings within their larger historical and religious contexts.

Ming Tombs near Beijing

Ming Tombs near Beijing
Author: Wander Stories
Publisher: WanderStories
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9949926106

Dear Traveler, Welcome to the WanderStories™ tour of the Ming Tombs near Beijing. We, at WanderStories™, are storytellers. We don’t tell you where to eat or sleep, we don’t intend to replace a typical travel reference guide. Our mission is to be the best local guide that you would wish to have by your side when visiting the sights. So, we meet you at the sight and take you on a tour. WanderStories™ travel guides are unique because our storytelling style puts you alongside the best local guide who tells you fascinating stories and unusual facts recreating the passion and sacrifice that forged the beauty of these places right here in front of you, while a wealth of high quality photos, historic pictures, and illustrations brings your tour vividly to life. Our promise: • when you visit the Ming Tombs with this travel guide you will have the best local guide at your fingertips • when you read this travel guide in the comfort of your armchair you will feel as if you are actually visiting the Ming Tombs with the best local guide Let’s go! Your guide, WanderStories

The Cambridge History of China

The Cambridge History of China
Author: Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1240
Release: 1978
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780521243339

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007
Genre: China
ISBN:

明清时代(公元1368~1911年)是陵寝建设史上的一个辉煌时期。明朝的开国皇帝朱元璋对陵寝制度作了重大改革。他将地上的封土堆由以前的覆斗式方形改为圆形或长圆形,又取消寝宫,并扩大了祭殿建筑。清代沿袭明代制度,更加注重陵园与周围山川形胜的结合,注重按所葬人辈分排列顺序,还形成了帝后妃陵寝的配套序列,在祭祀制度上也更加完善、合理。

Atlas of World Heritage

Atlas of World Heritage
Author:
Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: Historic sites
ISBN: 1592650600

Take a photographic journey to these fantastic natural and cultural sites of China. Full-color photographs and highly detailed maps and background information make this an excellent gift book or reference volume.

Ming

Ming
Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art objects, Chinese
ISBN: 9780714124841

Ask anyone what single object they associate with China and the most common answer will be a Ming vase. Probably without even knowing the dates of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), people are aware of the fragility of its porcelain, its rarity and value. But porcelain is just one part of the story of one of the most glorious epoques of China's past. By focusing on the significant years of the early Ming dynasty and through the themes of court people and their lives, extraordinary developments in culture, the military, religion, diplomacy and trade, this book brings the wider history of this fascinating period to colourful life.

The Ming Tombs

The Ming Tombs
Author: Ann Paludan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1991
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Few visit Beijing without going to the Ming Tombs, the burial grounds of the Ming dynasty who ruled China from 1368 to 1644. This book gives a concise and up-to-date description of one of China's most important archaeological sites. It explains the beliefs underlying Chinese burial practices and the significant symbolism of the stone monuments lining the spirit road--the avenue leading to the first tomb in the valley--with its animals and stone officials in fifteenth-century court costume.

Celestial Women

Celestial Women
Author: Keith McMahon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442255021

This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.