By Bruce Rusk on February 6, 2014
The Annual Meeting of the Society for Ming Studies will take place on March 28, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
Meeting Location: Philadelphia Downtown Marriott, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Friday, March 28, 2014, 7:30pm -9:30pm
The panel topic: “Southeast Asia and the Ming”
- Ken Hammond, “Wang Shizhen’s ‘Annan zhi’: A Ming perspective on Vietnam”
- Johannes Kurz, “Depictions of Borneo (Boni) in texts from the Ming”
- Kathlene Baldanza, “A Vietnamese Envoy in the Wanli Court”
- Ken Hall, “Ming and the Straits of Melaka-Java Sea-Bay of Bengal maritime passageway”
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By Bruce Rusk on January 29, 2014
A Ming-era quarry, where stone for epigraphy was mined, has been discovered near Wudangshan. There are some partial inscriptions still in situ.
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By Bruce Rusk on November 27, 2013
The controversial auction selling off the Croydon Museum collection of Chinese ceramics (largely Ming porcelain) has gone ahead, and most of the pieces were sold at a sale at Christie’s.
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By Bruce Rusk on October 27, 2013
A number of news outlets have reported that lower water levels in Lake Poyang, in Jiangxi province, have revealed the stone slabs making up a 3 kilometre-long bridge built in the Ming.
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By Bruce Rusk on July 26, 2013
The handy daily calendar of the Ming period by Keith Hazelton, also the first volume in the Ming Research Series, is now available as a downloadable PDF! Thanks to Keith for permission to post it, and to Ted Farmer for sacrificing a copy to be scanned.
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By Bruce Rusk on May 13, 2013
The largest Ming cemetery yet discovered in the province of Guangdong has been discovered in the course of work on the tomb of Zhan Ruoshui. Details: 广东发现省内规模最大明代古墓 – 新华网广东频道.
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By Bruce Rusk on March 22, 2013
A reminder that the annual meeting of the Society for Ming Studies will take place at 7 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013, during the Association for Asian Studies conference. It will be held in the Windsor B room. All are welcome.
New members and others interested in the Ming are encouraged to sign up for the mailing list and the add their names to the directory of scholars.
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By Bruce Rusk on March 14, 2013
At the AAS meeting in San Diego, the Society for Ming Studies will present a roundtable in honor of Professor Edward L. Farmer. The event will be on Friday, March 22, 7:00 PM in Windsor B at the convention hotel.
The speakers and their topics are:
- Yonglin JIANG and Yanhong WU: “Decoding Social Order: Ted Farmer’s Use of Ming Law Codes”
- Peter Ditmanson, on Ted Farmer’s contribution to our understanding of the geography and institutions of the early Ming polity
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Su CHEN: “Visualizing the Localities: Ted Farmer’s Work on Ming Gazetteers and Illustrated Maps”
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Joe Dennis, on Ted Farmer’s contributions in teaching, including his work to put China in a regional and global context; in the establishment of the Ming Studies Research Series; and in creating of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies
In addition, Prof. Farmer, will also speak. The roundtable will be chaired by Sarah Schneewind.
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By Bruce Rusk on January 20, 2013
A complex of 19 tombs belonging to a Zhang family has bee excavated in Xi’an. The Zhangs were involved in managing the palace of the Prince of Qin 秦. A painted wooden coffin is particularly well preserved.
西安发现明代家族墓面临文物彩绘褪色朽坏_业界聚焦_新浪收藏_新浪网.
Update: More and better photographs here.
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