Newly Discovered Source Sheds Light on Late Ming Faction
Reading Li Sancai's Fl! Huai Mao Cao
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11206271 |
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| Authors | Harry Miller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 2003 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-140 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ming Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-037X • E-ISSN: 1759-7595 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/014703703788763015 |
| OpenAlex | W1997582731 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Students of late Ming dynasty political history have long been tantalized by the “Li San-ts'ai” entry in the Dictionary of Ming Biography. In it, E-tu Zen Sun wrote that Li's collected works, the Cao fu xiao cao, were “reported to be still extant” (Zen Sun 1976, 849). For the present writer, this one phrase launched a thousand inquiries, as I endeavored to track down any source that would help me better understand the enigmatic Li Sancai (d. 1623), who figured prominently in the factionalism of the late Ming. In fact, I was (and still am) convinced that understanding Li Sancai would enable a significant reinterpretation of late Ming factional history, because Li offers the key to a fuller understanding of the best known late Ming faction: the Donglin
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Extant taxon · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Phrase · Reading (process · Reinterpretation · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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