Ming Court Histories from the Forbidden City

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1 For instance, Jeroen Duindam, Tülay Artan and Metin Kunt (eds), Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective (Leiden, 2011). The Palace Museum, Beijing, organised a conference focusing on comparative court histories in October 2016.

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Luk Yu-ping

Dr Luk Yu-ping is Curator of Chinese Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Asia. Previously, she was Project Curator of the exhibition Ming: 50 Years that Changed China at the British Museum. Her book, The Empress and the Heavenly Masters: A Study of the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang (1493), was published by the Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, in 2016. She is also one of the contributors and editors of Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400–1450, published by the British Museum in 2016.