Ming Qing Studies Series
Ming Qing Studies 2023
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2023
ISSN 2975-2639 / ISBN 979-12-5544-045-1
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Erling AGØY (University of Oslo), How to Face Natural Disasters in 17th Century Jangnan.
Annick GIJSBERS (Ph.D. KU Leuven 2015), The Chinese Bridges George Sand Dreamed About: Just How Far Did Martino Martini's Impact Reach?
Olivia Anna ROSVING MILBURN (University of Hong Kong), Surviving Records From a Palace in Flames (Jingong Yilu 燼宮遺錄): Deconstructing A Qing Dynasty Fake Text.
Charles WONG Kian Hoe (National University of Singapore), Tang Shunzhi’s Self-Image as a Military Expert and his Desire to Resurrect A Political Career.
REVIEWS
Meimei Xu, Cinema in China prior to WWI: A Case Study of West-Eastern Culture Transfer. Review by Edward Dehua WANG
Xuelei Huang, Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell. Review by Paolo SANTANGELO
Ming Qing Studies 2022
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2022
ISBN 979–12–5544–007-9
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Lam LAP (National University of Singapore), Founding Fathers: Qing Consul-Poets Zuo Binglong and Huang Zunxian in Singapore.
LEE Cheuk Yin (Universiti Brunei Daussalam), Individual Autonomy and Dissent in Mid Ming China: The Case of the "Four Talents of Wu".
Ronald C. PO (London School of Economics and Political Science), Fortifying the Maritime Frontier: Diagrams of Coastal Garrisons (Yingxun Tu) in the Qing Empire.
Yun-chen LU and Henning VON MIRBACH (DePaul University & University of California, Santa Barbara), The Jiaoshan Tripod and the Reconstitution of the Scholarly Community in Early Qing China.
REVIEWS
Shengqing Wu and Xuelei Huang, eds., Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture. Review by Paolo SANTANGELO
Ming Qing Studies 2021
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2021
ISBN 979–12–80353–82-5
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Xiaolin DUAN (North Carolina State University), Remembering West Lake: Place, Mobility, and Geographical Knowledge in Ming China.
Pascale GIRARD (Université Gustave Eiffel, ACP), Edible Plants of Guangdong Province in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: the Contrasting Perspectives of Two Observers, Dai Jing (1535) and Adriano de Las Cortes (1625).
HAN Yidan (National University of Singapore), Military Officers, Eunuchs, and Court Officials: Ming Wanli’s “Mining and Tax Collection Movement” Revisited.
HUANG Chen Sarah (City University of Hong Kong), Fulfilling the Potential of All Plants: Jiuhuang Bencao and the Discourses on Famine Foods.
LU Junda (SOAS, University of London), Ideas Behind Literati Activism in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Transition: The Statist Re-orientation of Scholarship and Resurging Statecraft Reformism.
YEUNG Man Shun (The University of Hong Kong), Sightseeing, Recreation, Religion, and Literature: The Role of Canton’s Haichuang Buddhist Temple in China-West Relations, 1750–1900.
REVIEWS
Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy, The Objectionable Li Zhi : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China. Review by Paolo SANTANGELO
Ōki Yasushi大木康, Min Shin Kōnan Shakai Bunka Shi kenkyū 明请江南社会文化史研究. Review by Paolo SANTANGELO
Jing Zhu, Visualizing Ethnicity in the Southwest Borderlands: Gender and Representation in Late Imperial and Republican China. Review by Tommaso Previato
Ming Qing Studies 2020
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2020
ISBN 978-88-85629-99-8
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Rostislav BEREZKIN (Fudan University) and Maria L. MENSHIKOVA (State Hermitage Museum), Chinese Diplomatic Gifts in Russia in 1655-1730: an Aspect of Intercultural Exchange.
CHEN Jiani (SOAS, University of London), Empowering the Marginalised: Images of Knight-errant Courtesans in the Ming Dynasty.
GENG Yong (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), Mongol Military Intrusions and the Frontier Officials Selection in Late Ming China.
Gábor KÓSA (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), The Qing Corpus of Manichaean Texts from Fujian.
KWON Hyuk-chan (University of Alberta), Confucian Chastity over Authenticity of Feeling: Identity and Emotions in a Rewriting of “Du Shiniang Sinks Her Jewel Box in Anger” in Late Chosŏn Korea.
Paolo SANTANGELO (Università Sapienza, Rome), Import and Export of Ideas, Beliefs and Tastes in World History: The Case of Confucius in 18th Century Italy.
YAP Sze Sze (National University of Singapore), Local Concern and Classical Learning: Understanding Li Guangpo's 李光坡 (1651-1723) Ritual Studies.
Isaac YUE (Hong Kong University), Martyrdom, Sexual Autonomy, and “Restrictive Emotionality”: The Making of a Ming Heroine.
REVIEWS
Tommaso Previato, Martyrdom and Frontier Banishment in the Official and Devotional Narratives of anti-Qing Uprisings: The Case of Jahri Sufi Women in 18-20th Century Gansu, Ming Qing Studies 2019, Monograph No. 2, WriteUp Site, 2020. Review by Roberta TONTINI
Ming Qing Studies 2019
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2018
ISBN 978-88-85629-71-4
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Loic ALOISIO, A Response to an 'Alien Invasion': The Rise of Chinese Science Fiction.
BAI Limin 白莉民, Jesuit Educational Tradition and the Remaking of Erudite Scholars in Late Qing China: A Case Study of Li Wenyu 李問漁 (1840-1911).
Henry LEM, Fiction as Cautionary Tale: Rewriting 'Rebellion' in Yu Wanchun's Dangkou zhi.
Aude LUCAS, Expressing Desire Through Language: The Paradoxes of the 'Baodai' Relationship.
ZHANG Jing 张静, A Filial Publisher's Unfilial Subjects: Printing, Literati Community, and Fiction-Making in Liushijia xiaoshuo.
ZHANG Yu 張禹, Between Confucianism and Catholicism: Rethinking Wu Li as a Ming Loyalist.
ZHU Jing 朱敬, Visualizing Human Differences in Late Imperial China: Body, Nakedness and Sexuality.
REVIEWS
Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy. Travelling Books, Community Networks, Intercultural Arguments, Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I. Vol. 75, Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2012. Nicolas Standaert, “Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Role of Christian Communities”, in Ines G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre (eds.), The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, Series: Studies in Christian Mission, Vol. 53, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 50-67. Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, “Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: From China to Rome”, ibidem, pp. 29-49. Michela Catto, “Atheism: A Word Travelling to and Fro Between Europe and China”, ibidem, pp. 68-88. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Song Huali 宋華麗, Diyi deng ren: Yi ge Jiangnan jiazu de xingshuai fuchen 第一等人: 一個江南家族的興衰浮沈 (Men of First Class: The Rise and Fall of a Clan in the Jiangnan Area), Chengdu: Sichuan wenyi chubanshe, 2018. By HANG Lin.
Maria Dolores Elizalde and Wang Jianlang (eds.), China’s Development from a Global Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. By Maria Paola CULEDDU.
Ming Qing Studies 2018
In memoriam of Mario Sabatini
Paolo Santangelo ed., WriteUp Books, 2018
ISBN 978-88-85629-38-7
Paolo SANTANGELO, In memoriam of Mario Sabattini (1944-2017)
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Caroline BODOLEC, Technology and Patronage of Construction Projects in Late Ming China. The Case of the Itinerant Monk-Architect Miaofeng Fudeng (1540-1613).
Annamaria CAVALLETTI, The First Chinese Travelogues in Europe: The Responses of Zhang Deyi and Wang Tao to Western Social Life.
CHEN Dandan, Rethinking 'Shame': Literati Consciousness in the Early Qing.
CHENG Yu-Yin, Christian Literati of the Lower Echelon in Late Ming China: The Case of Xiong Shiqi.
Laurent CHIRCOP-REYES, Merchants, Brigands and Escorts: an Anthropological Approach of the Biaoju 镖局 Phenomenon in Northern China.
DING Han, Literature and Identity: The Motif of “Lament for the South” during the Ming-Qing Transition.
HSIAO li-ling, Picturing Guqin Music: Min Qiji’s and Other’s Illustrations of “Yingying Listens to Qin” for Xixiang Ji.
Amy MATTHEWSON, Cartooning Anxieties of Empire: The First Sino-Japanese War and Imperial Rivalries in Punch.
MEI Chun, From a Bee-Eyed Villain to a Dim-Witted Buffoon: Wei Zhongxian and Literary Discourses on Evil in the Late Ming and Early Qing.
REVIEWS
I-Hsien Wu, Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone, Amherst: Cambria Press, 2017. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Zheng Xiaoyou, Nian Gengyao zhi Si 年羹堯之死 (The Death of Nian Gengyao), Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 2018. By HANG Lin.
Ming Qing Studies 2017
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 28, Aracne Editrice, 2017
ISBN 978-88-255-0972-4
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
FU Mengxing, Tales of the New Strange: Wang Tao’s Zhiguai Writing (1880-1890)..
BARTOSZ Kowalski, Holding an Empire together: Army, Colonization and State-building in Qing Xinjiang.
LIN Hsueh-Yi, Local History and National Politics in the Reconstructions of the Donglin Academy.
LIN Zhihui, The Speaking Garment: Clothes in Women’s Everyday Practice in Ming-Qing China.
YIU Chunlam Charlotte, The Concept of Qing in Honglou meng (Part II) - Historical Inheritance.
REVIEWS
Schorkowitz, Dittmar and Chia, Ning, eds. (2017) Managing Frontiers in Qing China: The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited. By Tommaso Previato.
Handler-Spitz, Rivi (2017) Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity. By Paolo Santangelo
Zou Ying (2016) “Talent, Identity, and Sociality in Early Qing Scholar-Beauty Novels”. By Paolo Santangelo
Ming Qing Studies 2016
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 20, Aracne Editrice, 2016
ISBN 978-88-548-9936-0
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Loredana CESARINO, Tian Yiheng's Shi nushi and its Influence on the Authorship of the Tang Poem "Presented to Pei Siqian".
CHEN Dandan, The Trauma of the Literati Self during the Ming-Qing Transition.
CHEN Yufang, What was Tolerated? The Reinterpretation of the Edict of Toleration of 1692.
Sarah DODD, Explorations of Desire: Monsters, Horror and Enchantment in Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi.
Gaia PERINI, 'Angels of Vengeance': The Influence of Russian Anarchist and Populist Movement on the Chinese Revolutionary Discourse during the Last Decade of the Qing Dynasty.
TSUI Wai, Literary Reactions to the Taiping Rebellion (1853-1864): A Study of the Poetry of Jiang Chunlin (1818-1868).
WU I-Hsien, Picturing Lin Daiyu: Honglou meng across Media.
YIU CHUNLAM Charlotte, The Concept of Qing in Honglou meng, (Part 1) - Historical Inheritance.
ZHENG Zemian, Thinking through the Heart of a Child: Luo Jinxi on Body and Ritual.
NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Anna DI TORO (2012), The Socio-Cultural Interaction between Russia and China in the 17th - early 20th Centuries. Some Observations Inspired by a Monograph by Nikolaj Samojlov.
REVIEWS
Previato Tommaso (2016), Moving Across Borders in China. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Cultural Diversity in Marginal Areas., Ariccia: Aracne Editrice. By Daniele BROMBAL.
Pierson Stacey (2014), From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Review HANG Lin.
Ten-Doesschate Chu Petra and Ding Ning, eds. (2015) Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. Review by Marco MECCARELLI, Catania University.
Ming Qing Studies 2015
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 18, Aracne Editrice, 2015
ISBN 978-88-548-8958-3
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Lorenzo ANDOLFATTO, Making sense of Incompleteness: Approximations of Utopia in Liang Qichao's Xin zhongguo weilai ji and Chen Tianhua's Shizi hou.
Giorgio CASACCHIA Travelling in a Thronged Desert.
CHEN Yushu,The Tension between the Realistic and Imaginary Elements in Alexander's Illustration.
Diego CUCINELLI, Windows onto the Supernatural in the Second Half of the Edo Period: from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyo (1776) by Toriyama Sekien to the E-hon hyaku monogatari (1841) by Takehara Shunsen.
Donatella FAILLA, A Virtual Escape from the "Closed Country" through Painting and Humorous Verses: Shiba Kokan's Seiyo mitate Mimeguri fukei zu.
Giulia FALATO, Alfonso Vagnone S.J.'s "Tongyou Jiaoyu (Child Education)" and its Contribution to the Introduction of Western Learning into Late Ming China.
GAO Yunwen, Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Colonial Modernity in Liang Qichao's Ban Dingyuan Conquering the Western Region.
Marco MECCARELLI, Chinese Painters in Nagasaki: Style and Artistic Contaminatio during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868).
Martina TURRIZIANI, The Historical Comparison between Italy and China Emerging from Kang Youwei's Yidali Youji.
Barbara WITT, Child Imagery and the Representation of Li Nezha in the Fengshen Yanyi.
XIE Mingguang, Translation, or Transliteration? The Question of Chinese within the Catholic Liturgy in the Xiru Ermu Zi (1626).
XIE Xin-Zhe, Forensics and Politics in Qing China - A Beijing Case.
REVIEWS
Di Toro Anna (2012), La Percezione della Russia in Cina tra XVII e XVIII sec., Roma: La Sapienza Orientale. By Mark GAMSA.
Jodi L. Weinstein (2014), Empire and Identity in Guizhou: Local Resistance to Qing Expansion, Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Series, Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN: 978-0295993270. By HANG Lin.
Ming Qing Studies 2014
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 15, Aracne Editrice, 2014
ISBN 978-88-548-8073-3
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Lavinia BENEDETTI, Killing Di Gong: Rethinking Van Gulik's Translation Of Late Qing Dynasty Novel Wu Zetian Si Da Qi'an.
HE Yanran, Sage Descendants Fight: A History of the Master You Ancestral Hall in Chongming.
KHEE Heong Koh, Claiming Authority in Lineage Leadership - A Fujian Case Study.
LEE Cheuk Yin, The Child-heart Mind: Li Zhi (1527-1602) and Intellectual Changes in Late Ming China.
LIU Feijyin, Powerful Bonds: Male Homosocial Desire in Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi.
Olivia MILBURN, Strange Stories of Judge Shi: Imagining a Manchu Investigator in Early Imperial China.
Francesco PARODI, The Taiping Rebellion in the Letters of the Catholic Fathers in China.
WANG Bing, Poetry Anthologies' Strategy for Constructing of Literary History: A Focus on Contemporary Anthologies of the Early Qing.
WANG Yizhou, The Origin, Transformation and Representation of the Double Lotus.
YUAN Xing, Leaving the 'Boudoir' for the Outside World: Travel and Travel Writings by Women from the Late Ming to the Late Qing Periods.
REVIEWS
Yuming He (2013) Home and the World: Editing the "Glorious Ming" in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 82, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. Review by HANG Lin.
Pauline C. Lee (2013) Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire, New York: State University of New York Press. Review by Paolo SANTANGELO.
Ming Qing Studies 2013
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 11, Aracne Editrice, 2013
ISBN 978-88-548-6635-5
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Lavinia BENEDETTI, Justice and Morality in Early Qing Dynasty Crime Fiction: A Preliminary Study.
CHEN Xinyu, The Hexagrams of the Yijing (Book of Changes) in Historical Studies - Li Zhi痴 Jiuzheng Yiyin.
Max Jakob FOLSTER, Legitimation of a 'Marginal Dynasty': The Great Xia in Sichuan, 1362-1371 - A Case Study.
FOO Yee Wah, Marco MECCARELLI and Antonella FLAMMINII, China and the West in the Art of the Nineteenth Century: A Cultural and Historical Review of the Relations between Painting and Photography.
Maria Chiara GASPARINI The Silk Cover of the Admonitions Scroll. Aesthetic and Visual Analysis.
HO DAHPON David, Was Fujian a Frontier? State Policies and Seafaring Culture from the Heyday of Piracy to The Ming-Qing Wars.
LI Guotong, Fujian Coast: The Home of Boundary-crossers in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Olga MEREKINA, The Old Catholic Church in Shanghai. A 350-year-old Treasure.
QIAN Nanxiu, Transformation of the Min (Fujian) Cainu Culture in the Late Qing Reform Era.
Paolo SANTANGELO, 'Disgust': Some Fragments of an Equivalent Feeling in Chinese Traditional Experience.
Renata VINCI, The Descriptions of Sicily in Chinese Travel Diaries and Geographic Works until Qing Dynasty.
YAN Zinan, A Change in the Poetic Style of Emperor Qianlong. A Study of the Heptasyllabic Regulated Verses on New Year's Day.
ZHAO Jing, A Comparative Literature Study on the Monstrosity and Transmissibility of Culture in Qing Dynasty.
Diego CUCINELLI, Feline Shadows in the Rising Sun: Cultural Values of Cat in Pre-Modern Japan.
NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Tommaso PREVIATO, Imperial China and the Cultural Boundaries between Hua-Xia and Man-Yi - Toward an Holistic Conception of Ethnic Relations.
Paolo SANTANGELO, How Chinese scholars read Franks' Re Orient: some materials.
REVIEWS
Jocelyn Valerie Chey and Jessica Milner Davis, eds. (2011) Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. By Paolo SANTANGELO
Ming Qing Studies 2012
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 9, Aracne Editrice, 2013
ISBN 978-88-548-5764-3
VOLUME I
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
CHANG Kang-I Sun, The Literary Voice of Widow Poets in the Ming and Qing.
MA Xiaoxi, The Descendants of Mongolian general Matutaer in Jingshan, Henan Province.
Tommaso PREVIATO, The Salars of Xunhua: a Muslim enclave in the heart of China.
PENG Hsiao Ping and CHANG Ming Chung, The Foundations of China's Inward-oriented Policies from the Perspective of the Adam Smith's Political Economy.
Cristiana TURINI The Naxi people in Ming China: the rule of the Mu tusi in Yunnan Province.
Isaac YUE The Gendered Discourse of the Chinese Courtesan in 'Du Shiniang Sinks her Jewel Box in Resentment'.
ZHANG Anfu and Alessandra CAPPELLETTI, Study on the Development of the Tuntian System in Northern Xinjiang during the Qing Dynasty.
ZHANG Zhiyan, Emotion qing in Early Modern England and Late Imperial China, With a Focus on Emotion in Shakespeare's Plays and Ming-Qing Literature.
ZHU Qiujuan, An Analysis of the Emotional Friendship Poems in Ming-Qing China.
NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Alessandra CAPPELLETTI, Menggu Shanshui Ditu. "On the Silk Road from Jiayuguan to Mecca from a camelback perspective"
REVIEWS
Gianni Criveller (ed.), Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulue), Vita del Maestro Ricci, Xitai del Grande Occidente, Brescia: Fondazione Civilta' Bresciana, Centro Giulio Aleni, 2010, pp. 1-176, 16 plates. By Donatella ROSSI.
Kang-i Sun Chang, "The Anxiety of Letters - Gong Zizhen and His Commentary on Love", in Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007, pp. 138-155. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Kang-i Sun Chang, "The Circularity of Literary Knowledge Between Ming China and Other Countries in East Asia: The Case of Qu You's Jiandeng Xinhua", NACS Conference Volume: On Chinese Culture and Globalization, ed. by Lena Rydholm, Stockholm: University of Stockholm Press, 2009, pp. 159-170. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Koh Khee Heong, A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1368-1464) and the Hedong School, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 353. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Hu Hongbao, Wang Jianmin and Zhang Haiyang, History of Chinese Anthropology, Firenze: SEID Editori, By Tommaso PREVIATO and Andrea Enrico PIA.
VOLUME II
Paolo SANTANGELO, Textual Analysis and Glossary of Liaozhai Zhiyi 3 and Zibuyu 1
Ming Qing Studies 2011
Paolo Santangelo ed., Asia Orientale, 6, Aracne Editrice, 2011
ISBN 978-88-548-4463-6
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
Michela BUSSOTTI, Chinese Printed Illustrations: Additional Notes on Materiality and on Material Authors of the Pipa ji and Xixiang ji Editions of the Ming Dinasty.
CHAN Ying Kit, Historicizing Ming-Ryukyu Relations: The Politics of Scholarship.
HSIUNG Ping-Chen, From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: Cricket-Fight and the Cultural Rhetorics in Late Imperial China.
Michele FATICA and Maria Letizia PIZZUTI, Essay on Giuseppe Maria Kuo's Journal.
Maurizio PAOLILLO, Intellectual or Emotional Knowledge? Values and Meanings of the Chinese Garden in the Ming Period.
Paolo SANTANGELO, Liaozhai zhiyi and Zibuyu, Two Precious Qing Sources on Mentality and Imagery.
WU Cuncun and Mark STEVENSON, Karmic Retribution and Moral Didacticism in Erotic Fiction from the Late Ming and Early Qing.
Roberta TONTINI, Tianfang Dianli: A Chinese Perspective on Islamic Law and its Legal Reasoning.
LEE Cheuk Yin, Praising and Blame: Evaluating Appellations in Song-Ming Historical Writings.
Barbara BISETTO, Emotions and Narrative: Depictions of Love in the Yuan Novella Jiao Hong ji and its Abridged Version in the Ming Anthology Qingshi leilue.
Erhard ROSNER, Emotions in chengyu and other set phrases.
NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Paolo VILLANI Notes on Variolation in Japan. Shuto hitsujun ben, (Variolation Ensures Gentle Smallpox, 1795) by Ogata Shunsaku
Maurizio RIOTTO Korean Reaction to Matteo Ricci and Christianity: A Case of "Defensive Fundamentalism"?
BOOK REVIEWS
Struve Lynn, "Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646", T'oung Pao 93, 2007, pp. 159-192. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Struve Lynn, "Self-Struggles of a Martyr: Memories, Dreams, and Obsessions in the Extant Diary of Huang Chuyao", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 69, 2, 2009, pp. 343-394. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Yu Anthony, Comparative Journeys. Essays on Literature and Religion East and West, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 408. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Ming Qing Studies 2010
Paolo Santangelo ed., Scriptaweb, 2010
ISBN 88-638-1096-6, 978-88-638-1096-7
Preface by Paolo SANTANGELO
ARTICLES
PART ONE: Translocal Dynamics in Late Imperial China
Peter DIMATSON, Khee Heong KOH and CHANG Woei Ong, Translocal Dynamics in Late Imperial China: An Introductory Essay
DU Yongtao, The Lesson of Riches: Mercantile Culture and Locality in Late Ming Huizhou
Peter DIMATSON, Local and Trans-local Activism in Commemorating the Martyrs of 1402
LU Miaw-Fen, The Rediscovery of Zhang Zai in the Ming-Qing Transition
KOH Khee Heong, The Hedong School: Regional and Translocal Intellectual Network
Stevan B. MILES, “Stones from Other Hills”: Civil Examinations and Translocal Practice in Ming and Qing South China
TIAN Yuan-Tan, The Transmission of Sanqu Songs, Writers’ Reputation, and Literati Network in the Mid Ming: Local and Trans-local Considerations
PART TWO
Gianni CRIVELLER, Jesuits’ Visual Culture Accommodated in China during the Last Decades of Ming Dynasty
Paolo SANTANGELO, The Shan“e, a rich historical source for late imperial China
Maria Paola CULEDDU, Shimazu Yukihisa and the four junshi in Sadowara. A loyalty case in Tokugawa Japan.
BOOK REVIEWS
Anthony Yu, State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspective. Chicago & LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2005. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Perry Link, ed., The Scholars Mind. Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Mote, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009. By Paolo SANTANGELO.
Monica Esposito, L'Alchimia del Soffio. La pratica della visione interiore nell'alchimia taoista. Roma: Ubaldini Editore, 1997. BY Donatella ROSSI