Micah and Sarah Schneewind talk about the article “A Ming Landscape: Settlement, Land Use, Labor, and Estheticism in T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi” by John W. Dardess, which was published in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies in 1989.
Anyone who listens to this podcast will enjoy reading Sarah Schneewind's book A Tale of Two Melons: Emperor and Subject in Ming China. Her most recent book is Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos. You can find Sarah's bio here. And be sure to visit her website The Ming History English Translation Project.
These are some of the works mentioned in the episode (with links where possible):
王直 (1379-1462),《抑庵集》[Wang Zhi's collected writings]
《泰和县志》(1879)
John W. Dardess, A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (University of California Press, 1997)
Anne Gerritsen, Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
John W. Dardess, More than the Great Wall: The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368-1644 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
John W. Dardess, Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China (Studies in Oriental Culture) (Columbia University Press, 1973)
John W. Dardess, Ideas, Determination, Power: How Zhang Juzheng Dominated China, 1572–82
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