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Cultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existen…
Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators--these are the dangerous women of traditional China. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a vivid counterpoint. Violating state-sponsored orthodoxies, the granny mocks and mimics, the geisha …
"This book is a history of a high point in Chinese culture, seen through the riches of its images and objects. Not a simple emperor-by-emperor history, Empire of Great Brightness instead introduces the reader to themes that provide points of entry into Ming China: to ideas of mo…
This study challenges the conventional assumption that law in pre-modern China was used merely as an arm of the state to maintain social control and as a secular tool to exercise naked power.
"Imperial China's dynastic legal codes provide a wealth of information for historians, social scientists, and scholars of comparative law and of literary, cultural, and legal history. Until now, only the Tang (618-907) and Qing (1644-1911) codes have been available in English tr…
"Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of desire and that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming has to be studied in the context of the contemporary debate on desir…
"Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of desire and that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming has to be studied in the context of the contemporary debate on desir…
March to power in a Chinggisid world -- Search for control -- Mongol nobles at the Ming court -- Struggle for the Chinggisid mantle -- Allies and commensurability. "This book analyzes the exercise of imperial rulership during the first six decades of the fifteenth century, when…