“UW Press / Geiss Hsu Foundation Open Access Books”

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.

21 projects. Showing results 1 through 20.

Three Impeachments

Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court

Published April, 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

The Great Ming Code / Da Ming lü

Yonglin Jiang

Published March, 2005

Perpetual Happiness

The Ming Emperor Yongle

Shih-shan Henry Tsai

Published February, 2001