UW Press / Geiss Hsu Foundation Open Access Books

This collection of scholarship on Ming dynasty China and adjacent periods and territories, published by the University of Washington Press, is openly available thanks to the generous support of the Geiss Hsu Foundation.

23 projects. Showing results 1 through 20.

Wading Barefoot through a Mountain Stream
The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1641)
Xu Xiake, James Hargett
Published January, 2026
Observing the Unseen
Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China
Andrew Schonebaum
Published January, 2026
Three Impeachments
Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court
Published December, 2025
Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
Li Guo, Douglas Eyman, Hongmei Sun
Published July, 2024
Chinese Autobiographical Writing
An Anthology of Personal Accounts
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Ellen Zhang, Ping Yao
Published January, 2023
The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
A Woman of Power and Privilege
Alison Melnick Dyer
Published August, 2022
A Ming Confucian's World
Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden
Lu Rong, Mark Halperin
Published April, 2022
The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
A Seventeenth-Century Novel
Kristin Ingrid Fryklund, Mark Edward Lewis, Brigitte Baptandier
Published February, 2021
The Objectionable Li Zhi
Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China
Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, Haun Saussy
Published January, 2021
Further Adventures on the Journey to the West
Master of Silent Whistle Studio, Qiancheng Li, Robert E. Hegel
Published October, 2020
Fir and Empire
The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Ian M. Miller
Published June, 2020
Jesuits and Matriarchs
Domestic Worship in Early Modern China
Nadine Amsler
Published November, 2018
Many Faces of Mulian
The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
Rostislav Berezkin
Published July, 2017
Symptoms of an Unruly Age
Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Rivi Handler-Spitz
Published April, 2017
Confucian Image Politics
Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China
Ying Zhang
Published November, 2016
Novel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
Andrew Schonebaum
Published April, 2016
The Scholar and the State
Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
Liangyan Ge
Published January, 2015
The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code
Yonglin Jiang
Published January, 2011
The Interweaving of Rituals
Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe
Nicolas Standaert
Published April, 2008
The Story of Han Xiangzi
The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal
Yang Erzeng, Philip Clart
Published April, 2007

UW Press / Geiss Hsu Foundation Open Access Books

Wading Barefoot through a Mountain Stream

The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1641)

Observing the Unseen

Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China

Three Impeachments

Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court

Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures

Chinese Autobiographical Writing

An Anthology of Personal Accounts

The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön

A Woman of Power and Privilege

A Ming Confucian's World

Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden

The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

A Seventeenth-Century Novel

The Objectionable Li Zhi

Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China

Further Adventures on the Journey to the West

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Jesuits and Matriarchs

Domestic Worship in Early Modern China

Many Faces of Mulian

The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China

Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

Confucian Image Politics

Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China

Novel Medicine

Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

The Scholar and the State

Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code

The Interweaving of Rituals

Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe

The Story of Han Xiangzi

The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal