An Age of Exalted Harmony? Deciphering the Contested Historiography of the Jingtai Reign
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11206558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron Throness (Department of History, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 83 |
| Pages | 30-59 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/0147037x.2021.1886462 |
| OpenAlex | W3159139306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
The contested historiography of the Jingtai Emperor remains a largely untouched subject in contemporary Ming scholarship. In an attempt to contribute to this field of study, this essay surveys and analyses the works of his detractors and supporters both in the immediate aftermath of his reign and beyond, while simultaneously tracing the process whereby the Jingtai reign was first disparaged and then gradually rehabilitated. It contends that the patterns discernible in how Ming writers thought about the Jingtai reign reveal a schism between ritual-oriented detractors and function-oriented supporters, both of whom were locked in a historiographical deadlock concerning standards of imperial rulership during an unprecedented crisis. It further argues that a confluence of trends including the vibrant intellectual activity of post-Tumu Ming China, the compilation of private histories incongruent with official ones, and dissatisfaction with official historiography contributed to the salvaging of Zhu Qiyu’s unconventional reign
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Emperor · Historiography · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reign · Schism · Scholarship · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
The Southern Ming, 1644–1662
The Former Han dynasty
The Ch'eng-hua and Hung-chih reigns, 1465–1505
Historians of China and Japan
The Ascendance of the Imprint in China
Wang Mang, the restoration of the Han dynasty, and Later Han
The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'len-shun reigns, 1436–1464
The T’u-mu Incident of 1449
The Troubled Empire
Ming China and its Allies
Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court
A Year of No Significance
The Care-Taker Emperor
Venerating the Martyrs of the 1402 Usurpation
Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644
More than the Great Wall
Different Types of Scholar-Official in Sixteenth-Century China
Protesting to the Death
Four Seasons
Imperial History and Broadening Historical Consciousness in Late Ming China
The Decadent Chalice
Intellectual Trends in the Fifteenth Century
Politics, Force and Ethnicity in Ming China
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |