“UW Press / Geiss Hsu Foundation Open Access Books” on Manifold at the University of Washington

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.

14 projects. Showing results 1 through 14.

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 Objectionable Li Zhi

Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China

Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, Haun Saussy

Published January, 2021

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

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 Story of Han Xiangzi

The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal

Yang Erzeng, Philip Clart

Published April, 2007

Perpetual Happiness

The Ming Emperor Yongle

Shih-shan Henry Tsai

Published February, 2001

Vignettes from the Late Ming

A Hsiao-p’in Anthology

Yang Ye

Published March, 1999