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Gruzinski, The Eagle and the Dragon- Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century (December, 2014)

Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America ... viii + 293 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7456-6711-9; $28.95 (paper ... piracy on China’s southern coast by his countrymen, Pires himself ended his ...

Jiang, Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code (November 2, 2013)

(paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99343-0. Legal Cosmology and The Great Ming Code ... Most scholars, according to Jiang, perceive law in imperial China ... and “bureaucratic,” attributes China’s “nondevelopment” to the negative nature of law ...

McGuire, Living Karma- the Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu (January 1, 2014)

of the most influential Buddhist figures of Ming dynasty China. Beverly Foulks ... recluse from China” and dissociates himself from any specific institution ... of Ming-dynasty China, but also sheds light on the complexity and coherence of his ...

Tracy and Rangow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West, 2003.

and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.  New York ... that occurred around the same time in Western Europe, Russia, and China. The work ... Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and China specifically contribute to the debate ...

Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, 2008

the invention and early use of gunpowder in China and shows that the Chinese also ... was a pioneer in this kind of warfare. Perhaps one could call China under the Ming the first "gunpowder empire“. But the firm control of China by the Ming ...

Kang, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, 2010

and China. Drawing on the work of Liam Kelley, Gary Ledyard, Peter C. Perdue, ... it as a fiction, he notes, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan all participated ... attacked Korea, which, allied with China, formed an army of 160,000 Chinese ...