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The Embroidered Uniform Guard (traditional Chinese: 錦衣衞; simplified Chinese: 锦衣卫; pinyin: Jǐnyīwèi; lit. 'brocade-clothing guard') was the imperial secret police that served the emperors of the Ming dynasty in China. [1] [2] The guard was founded by the Hongwu Emperor, founding emperor of Ming, in 1368 to serve as his personal ...
The late Ming and early Qing dynasty versions of these novels, however, included commentaries that were printed between the lines, so that the reader saw them as part of the text. These commentaries interpreted the text in often strained ways, but established critical and aesthetic criteria, modeled on those of poetry and painting, that gave ...
Illustrations of Fengshen Yanyi from an edition of the novel featuring commentary by Zhong Xing (1574-1625) (book one). The Investiture of the Gods, also known as Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì), is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Novelization of the cancelled game of the same name; incorporates elements of the game Tex Murphy: Overseer, itself largely a retelling of the first game, Mean Streets: The Dig: The Dig: Alan Dean Foster: ISBN 978-4073073598: Aspect The Lords of Midnight: The Lords of Midnight: Drew Wagar ISBN 978-1-912053-92-6 ISBN 978-1-912053-91-9: Fantastic ...
Television series set in the Ming dynasty (1 C, 34 P) Video games set in the Ming dynasty (4 P) N. ... Pages in category "Ming dynasty in fiction"
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The Investiture of the Gods, also known by its Chinese names Fengshen Yanyi (Chinese: 封神演義; pinyin: Fēngshén Yǎnyì; Wade–Giles: Fêng 1-shên 2 Yan 3-yi 4; Jyutping: Fung 1 San 4 Jin 2 Ji 6) and Fengshen Bang (封神榜), [note 1] is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty ...
Pages in category "Video games set in the Ming dynasty" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.