Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing p
The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was old
This is the first book-length study of the roles played by the Manchu language at the center of the Qing empire at the height of its power in the eighteenth cen
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building pro
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, includ
