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Later they are granted amnesty and enlisted by the government to resist the nomadic conquest of the Liao dynasty and other rebels. While the book's authorship is traditionally attributed to Shi Nai'an (1296–1372), the first external reference to the novel only appeared in 1524 during the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, sparking a long ...
The History of Ming is the final official Chinese history included in the Twenty-Four Histories. It consists of 332 volumes and covers the history of the Ming dynasty from 1368 to 1644. It was written by a number of officials commissioned by the court of Qing dynasty , with Zhang Tingyu as the lead editor.
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 ...
The Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) ruled before the establishment of the Ming dynasty. Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against the Han people that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by crop failure, inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation ...
Ming dynasty novels (1 C, 22 P) P. Ming dynasty plays (4 P) ... Pages in category "Ming dynasty literature" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of ...
Pages in category "Novels set in the Ming dynasty" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Jingshi Tongyan is considered to be a huaben (话本), that is, short novel or novella. The huaben genre has been around since the Song dynasty (960-1279). The huaben genre includes collections of short stories, like Jingshi Tongyan, historical stories, and even stories from Confucian classics.
The Ming dynasty (1368–1644) was an imperial dynasty of China that succeeded the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and preceded the Manchu-led Qing dynasty.Following the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644, members of the Ming imperial family continued to rule rump states in southern China, commonly known as the Southern Ming, until 1662.