The Tragedy of Hai Rui: An Institutional Predicament Unchanged for Four Hundred Years
After finishing the chapter on Hai Rui in Ray Huang’s 1587, A Year of No Significance (《万历十五年》), the image that immediately surfaced in my mind was th...
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After finishing the chapter on Hai Rui in Ray Huang’s 1587, A Year of No Significance (《万历十五年》), the image that immediately surfaced in my mind was th...
IntroductionDuring the 2021 National Day holiday, my wife and I traveled to Beijing together and walked into Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs — the mau...
引言2021 年国庆,我和爱人一同去往北京,走进了明十三陵中的定陵 —— 这里便是万历皇帝朱翊钧的陵寝。 岁月流转早已物是人非,就连万历本人的遗骸,也早已在特殊年代里化为尘烟。定陵也是中国历史上唯一一座被主动考古发掘的帝王陵寝,当年由郭沫若、吴晗牵头主持发掘,地宫一共出土文物三千余件,囊括冠服金器、...
The emperor’s grand wedding in 1578 was hardly a momentous event. At the time the emperor was just fourteen and the empress thirteen. Empress Wang wa...
1578年皇帝的大婚,并不是什么震撼人心的重大事件。当时皇帝年仅十四,皇后年仅十三。皇后王氏是平民的女儿,万历和她结婚,完全是依从母后慈圣的愿望……她享有宫廷内的一切尊荣,但是缺乏一个普通妻子可以得到的快乐。实际上,她只是一种制度的附件……但是,她也留给人们以另一种记忆,即经常拷打宫女,并有很多人...
After finishing the chapter on Hai Rui in Ray Huang’s 1587, A Year of No Significance (《万历十五年》), the image that immediately surfaced in my mind was th...
IntroductionDuring the 2021 National Day holiday, my wife and I traveled to Beijing together and walked into Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs — the mau...
IntroductionDuring the 2021 National Day holiday, my wife and I traveled to Beijing together and walked into Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs — the mau...
The emperor’s grand wedding in 1578 was hardly a momentous event. At the time the emperor was just fourteen and the empress thirteen. Empress Wang wa...
The emperor’s grand wedding in 1578 was hardly a momentous event. At the time the emperor was just fourteen and the empress thirteen. Empress Wang wa...