Questions tagged [ming-dynasty]
The Ming Dynasty was founded in 1368 after its first Emperor, Hongwu, drove the Mongolians from China. It fell to a combination of Manchurian invasion and peasant insurrection in 1644.
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Was silent reading or reading aloud the norm in pre-modern (esp. Tang through Ming eras) China?
Many scholars argue that in ancient Greco-Roman culture, reading aloud was the norm, as seen in examples like Augustine's Confessions, where Augustine sees someone reading silently and sees this as ...
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Which ranks of concubine resided in the gong and yuan respectively?
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Having at long last gained access to this source by a certain Mr. Woo and with the support of the answers to my previous question I can finally gather some statistics on successions ...