Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-06-17DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340032
R. Ptak
{"title":"References to the Coral Islands in Huang Zhong’s Hai yu 海語","authors":"R. Ptak","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000There are many studies on the history of the islands in the South China Sea. The present article looks at the references to these islands in one source, Huang Zhong’s 黄衷 Hai yu 海語 (preface 1536). This mainly concerns two entries in that work. One entry bears the title Wanli shitang 萬里石塘, the other is called Wanli changsha 萬里長沙. The article presents English translations of these entries together with detailed comments. These comments are necessary because both entries contain several terms and passages that are difficult to understand. The comments investigate questions related to the geography and other phenoma of this area. This involves citations from contemporary sources as well as from some earlier and later works. In that sense the article may classify as a long philological note, or a collection of glosses, on a particular aspect described in one important mid-Ming text.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45316171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-06-17DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340034
Ying-kit Chan
{"title":"A Private Secretary from Golden Gate: Lin Shumei in Jinmen (Quemoy), Taiwan and Xiamen","authors":"Ying-kit Chan","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The exponential growth of the population from the founding decades of the Qing Dynasty to the early nineteenth century placed tremendous stress on the local bureaucracies, which increasingly depended on county clerks and runners and the nondegree-holding literati to reduce costs within the Qing Empire. This article investigates the life of Lin Shumei 林樹梅 (1808–1851), a private secretary, or muyou 幕友, from Jinmen who had served in semiofficial capacities in Taiwan and Xiamen, highlighting the kind of opportunities that were available to him in the imperial bureaucracy. By plotting the career trajectory of Lin Shumei, the article shows that the defence, governance and settlement of the frontier regions of the Qing Empire depended more on the expertise of ‘men on the spot’ such as Lin than on policies devised in the imperial and provincial capitals.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48196554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340026
Francesco Calzolaio
{"title":"China, the Abode of Arts and Crafts: Emergence and Diffusion of a Persian Saying on China in Mongol Eurasia","authors":"Francesco Calzolaio","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340026","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1250 and 1450 a saying about China spread across Eurasia, from Castile to the Indian subcontinent. It is the proverb known as the “eyes of the world”, according to which when it comes to arts and crafts, the Chinese see with two eyes, the Europeans with one, and other nations are blind. This metaphor was widely used by pre-modern Eurasian intellectuals to synthesize the high degree of sophistication and splendour reached by Chinese culture. It has been suggested that the adage originated either in the Byzantine world or in Mongol China, whence it spread to central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe. A study of Persian sources, however, seems to invalidate this hypothesis, suggesting a Persian origin. Such Eurasian diffusion of a Persian saying about China illustrates how easily literary images, tropes, and lore could spread across the Mongol empire and how Asian geographic and ethnographic discourses could contribute to the new representation of the world which emerged in the Mongol period. It also advocates for the inclusivity of Persian literary imagery, at times so influent as to trespass the borders both of the Persianate and of the Islamicate world.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47086227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340029
F. Manzari
{"title":"From Icons of Evil to Features of Princely Pleasure: Mongols in Fourteenth-Century Italian Illuminated Manuscripts","authors":"F. Manzari","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340029","url":null,"abstract":"The representation of Mongols in Late-Medieval Italian illuminated manuscripts undergoes a transformation in the fourteenth century. In literature connected to the Crusades and in historical writings they are usually portrayed as symbols of Evil or of the Deadly Vices. In other instances, nonetheless, they seem to lose this significant iconic value and to turn into an exotic component for the amusement of princely patrons. It is certainly not by chance that illuminations comprising Mongols were produced in the cities most strongly tied to the East by trading routes and commercial interests, like Venice and Genoa. The appearance of Mongols within more widespread iconographies, both sacred and secular, and their metamorphosis as exotic decorations are connected to manuscript illumination at the Angevin court in Naples. This contribution re-evaluates both types of instances, with the purpose of achieving a survey of these types of representation in Italian gothic illuminated manuscripts.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48936392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340028
Charles Melville
{"title":"Ghazan Khan’s Political Will and Testament: Further Light on the Mongol Household","authors":"Charles Melville","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340028","url":null,"abstract":"Towards the end of his life, Ghazan Khan (r.1295–1304) made arrangements for the continuation of the Ilkhanid government along the lines he had established in his short but formative reign. Rashid al-Din refers briefly to Ghazan’s last testament (vasiyat-nama) but gives no details; however, Qashani in his history of Öljeitü reproduces it as a document and Vassaf, writing around the same time, presents it as a speech made by Ghazan to the assembled courtiers. This paper will compare the two texts and seek to identify both the offices and the office-holders mentioned, with a view to better understanding the underpinning of political power and faction in the Ilkhanate.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49551256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340030
Brunilde Brigante
{"title":"Representation of Mongols in the Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient Illuminated for the Cabrera-Cruïlles Family","authors":"Brunilde Brigante","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340030","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many exotic populations represented in the richly illuminated manuscript of the Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient (BnF, n.a.f. 886) the Mongols have clearly been highlighted by the artist who carried out the illustrative cycle. This matches the views expressed in the text by its author, Hayton of Korykos, who stressed the strategic importance of an alliance between Mongols and Christians against the Mameluks of Egypt, who were holding the possession of the Holy Land. In this manuscript, illuminated in Catalonia for a member of the Cabrera-Cruilles families, exoticism is conveyed through the representation of arms and dresses. It is interesting to notice that the Mongols are the only population who is represented with unmistakable distinctive features: the conical hat, and the arch and arrows. In addition to indications based on the miniatures’ style, the iconographic analysis of the armours allows to suggest that the manuscript was produced during the first half of 14th century.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45768988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340024
D. Guida
{"title":"Editor’s Note: Ming Qing Yanjiu 22.2 (2018)—Mongols in the Fourteenth Century","authors":"D. Guida","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43208044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340025
D. Guida
{"title":"Aliens and Emperors: Faithful Mongolian Officials in the Ming History","authors":"D. Guida","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340025","url":null,"abstract":"The biographies of nine Mongol officials recorded in the Ming History are not only useful in tracing the enduring Mongol presence at the highest levels of the Ming court; they are also a political demonstration of the close and continuous relationship with this ethnic group until the very end of the dynasty. Besides, since the History was compiled under the auspices of the Qing dynasty, it may give some hints about its own relations with the Mongol allies.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42364863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2019-03-12DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340027
D. Bayarsaikhan
{"title":"Kirakos Gandzakets‘i, as a Mongol Prisoner","authors":"D. Bayarsaikhan","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340027","url":null,"abstract":"Armenian Historian Kirakos Gandzakets‘i was captured by Mongol noyan Molar during the first wave of Mongol conquest of the Caucasus. He was in captivity for about a year. This gave him a certain understanding of the history and religion of the Mongols as well as some knowledge of Mongolian.On Molar’s orders, Kirakos was taken to serve the Mongols’ secretarial needs, writing and reading letters.In this paper I argue that the Armenian source of Kirakos Gandzakets‘i is a first-hand history on the early Mongols in the Caucasus, and the Mongolian vocabulary that Kirakos gives in his work ranks among the earliest Mongolian glossaries in non-Mongol sources.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49434130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ming Qing YanjiuPub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/24684791-12340021
Xueshen Wang
{"title":"The Bannerman Community of Fujian Qinjiang under the Qing Dynasty: A Case Study in Acculturation (涵化)","authors":"Xueshen Wang","doi":"10.1163/24684791-12340021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24684791-12340021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The banner city constructed in 1729 at the village of Qinjiang, Fujian, provides a typical example of interaction and acculturation between Qing bannermen and local Chinese. The bannermen were the small, ethnically defined, but humanly constructed minority that ruled China for two hundred and sixty-eight years. The Qinjiang banner city was established well into that era, and records of life there indicate how much the newcomers accepted Han Chinese culture, local religious beliefs, and Fujian kinship modes. But we also see how the Bannermen maintained self-identity, such as the inner banner circle marriage model and banner community maintenance.","PeriodicalId":29854,"journal":{"name":"Ming Qing Yanjiu","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/24684791-12340021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41775970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}