Ming the Merciless

but also to persecute and attack any pro-Manchu citizens that may oppose his point of view. This is part of the “literary inquisition” of literary censorship that intimated, beheaded, or imprisoned any opponents to Qianlong Emperor policies regarding Ming Dynasty literature. In this capacity, individuals that were perceived to be an enemy of Qing Dynasty literature became a target for government officials that sought to enforce Qianlong Emperor’s policies through trials and court hearings on…

Ancient China was built largely on the principle of Li. Women chastity and Jingbiao system were the products of the ideology of Li, which further served as a means for rulers to promote moral standards. Susan Mann’s article had exploded the widowhood in Qing dynasty in great details. Mann emphasized “ the discourse on widowhood was a malleable discourse, shaped not only by class difference, but also by historical events that transformed the meaning of chaste widowhood”. She managed to explain…

Chinese landscape painting in the long process of development, the formation of a unique style and aesthetic taste and a complete theoretical system. Similarly, in the Western painting accounted for an important position of the landscape is also true. These two objects of the same performance using different forms of expression of art in the world of art treasures occupy an extremely important position. They are in two different civilizations, the aesthetic value of these two art is the precious…

Lily is the main character and the first person relater of her life story. She was born in the early 1823. Having been in China during the 1800s and into the early 1900s, Lily had got the experience of a lot of Chinese history including transformations of many ancient dynasties of China.As the novel begins she is eighty years old. She had been reflecting about a fan that she had acquired from her friend Snow Flower before many years. By the side of the fan's many folds the two women had recorded…

Zheng He was a Chinese Muslim admiral during the Ming Dynasty. In 1405, Zheng He received orders from Emperor Yongle to travel down the coast of China and across the ocean to India to show the power of China. For the next 28 years, Zheng He would lead seven voyages and sailed distances farther than anyone had before. He commanded numerous ships of breath-taking size with thousands of people in his crew and established peaceful relationships with other areas. The voyages of Zheng He should be…

social systems were bound to evolve. After the discovery of the silver, the global flow of silver had a number of social and economic effects between 1500 and 1750. Trade started to include China more extensively, and silver was the only currency that Ming China accepted in exchange for their luxurious products (Docs 1, 3, 5, 7). In exchange for this silver, the Europeans received Asian luxuries and commodities on a large scale (Docs 2, 4, 8). In a broader sense, because silver became the global…

displayed in art, literature, social rank, and education. To do this I am going to first provide an insight into the Han Chinese culture as a whole during the Ming Dynasty, including a view point from Europe at the time; then I will explain the significance of the civic examinations and the influence of Confucian ideology in art at the Ming court. Next the printing industry’s role in the perpetuation of Confucian ideology, all this will help to convey the importance of Confucianism as…

Nomads have influenced Europe and China socially, politically, and economically due to them helping spread there ideas on the government, also by introducing other countries to the vast resources that the place they conquered had and by sometimes transferring the power from being passed down by heritage to actually to people who studied and knew how to rule ,however, not all the time when a nomadic tribe invaded/conquered a territory they actually helped the empire sometimes all they did was…

Traveling to a foreign country in eighth grade, surrounded by my carefree friends instead of overprotective parents marked an important milestone in my life. Having the opportunity to hang out with my friends with the freedom to decide what we want in Beijing, China is an experience I’ll never forget. It’s always nerve racking as a kid when you have to leave the safety of your dependable parents and place your trust in your teachers to make sure you don’t get lost or thrown into jail in another…

The legal rights of Chinese women remain almost nonexistent during the 14th to 17th century Ming Dynasty rule, however, modern day China is controlled by a government working to achieve equality for both genders. Throughout the 276 years that the Ming Dynasty was controlling China, a plethora of achievements in the areas of education, philosophy, literature, and art changed Chinese society. However, these changes affected mainly males because women were treated as nothing. For instance, the main…