Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450
Ming China : courts and contacts, 1400-1450. Edited by Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall and Luk Yu-ping. London : The British Museum, 2016. 312 p. ISBN : 978-0-8615-9205-0. [En ligne] URL : http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/205_Ming_China_Courts_and_Contacts.pdf (consulté le 9 juin 2017)
Actes du colloque organisé au British Museum de Londres du 9 au 11 octobre 2014. Ce colloque accompagnait l’exposition Ming: 50 years that changed the world (septembre 2014-janvier 2015).
Introduction, par Craig Clunas (extrait)
The exhibition held at the British Museum from 18 September 2014 to 5 January 2015, and entitled Ming: 50 years that changed China, had as one of its central aims that of bringing before a wide public some elements of the recent revolution in scholarly perception of the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644). This has moved away from the tendency in older scholarship of viewing the period essentially as a nativist reaction to the Mongol conquest and the years of Yuan rule, and one which saw China pulling down the shutters on the outside world, in a ‘turning away from the outside world [which] was accompanied by a growing introspection within Chinese life’. Although the emerging new paradigm still requires further work (which this volume is a contribution to), many scholars now see the early Ming as a distinctive example among a group of states across Eurasia which descended from the era of Chinggis Khan, with its courtly culture in particular captured by the cosmopolitan glamour of Mongol styles of rulership. Almost all now see it as an age of unprecedented engagement, in both peaceful and violent forms, with the world beyond the borders of the Ming empire, the first period when (as in the Tang dynasty), Chinese power was projected deep intoCentral Asia, while at the same time (as in the Song dynasty) the possibilities of a maritime hegemony were also explored.OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (9 juin 2017). Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 16 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqy9
