What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming

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Notes

1 Hung-tai Wang, “Information Media, Social Imagination, and Public Society during the Ming and Qing Dynasties,” Frontiers of History in China, vol. 5, no. 2 (2010): 169–216.

2 David Robinson, In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019); Ming China and its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia (New York: Cambridge Unviersity Press, 2019).

3 Nancy Steinhardt, “Imperial Architecture along the Mongolian Road to Dadu,” Ars Orientalis, vol. 18 (1988), 59–93.

4 Ian Miller, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020), 143.

5 Xin Ding et al., “Congruent species delimitation of two controversial gold-thread nanmu tree species based on morphological and restriction site-associated DNA sequencing data,” Journal of Statistics and Evolution, vol. 57, no. 3 (2019): 234–46; Meng Zhang, Timber and Forestry in Qing China, 200nt15.

6 Chunhui Liao et al., “Condition assessment of wood structural members at Yu Tomb of the Ming Dynasty, China,” Materials and Structures 48 (2105): 3259–67.

7 James Geiss, “The Leopard Quarter during the Cheng-Te Reign,” Ming Studies no. 1 (1987): 1–38.