Introduction: Craig Clunas 1. Justifying Ming Rulership on a Eurasian Stage - David M. Robinson2. Domination in Four Keys: Ming China and its Southern Neighbours 1400-1450 - Geoffrey Wade3. Diplomacy, Trade, and the Quest for the Buddha's Tooth: The Yongle Emperor and Ming China's South Asian Frontier - Tansen Sen4. Causes & Consequences of the Ming Intervention in Vietnam in the Early 15th Century - Kenneth Swope5. Green Beijing: Ecologies of Movement in the New Capital c. 1450 - Jonathan Hay6.
Painting of the Imperial Palace and Zhu Bang -Yu Hui7. The Empress' Dragon Crown: Establishing Symbols of Imperial Authority in the early Ming - Luk Yu-ping8. Early Ming Ceramics - rethinking the status of blue-and-white - Jessica Harrison-Hall9. Zhu Quan, A Prince who Changed Ming Musical History - Joseph S.C. Lam10. Fashioning the Imperial Legacy: Yang Shiqi and the Record of Imperial Pronouncements - Peter Ditmanson11. Politics or entertainment? Examining Jiangxi scholar officials and Zhejiang painters through the lens of Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden -Yin Ji'nan12.
The Gradual Termination of the Early Ming Voyages to the Western Oceans and Its Causes - Zhao Zhongnan 13. The New Idea of Ritual Vessels in the Early Ming Dynasty: A Third System - Shin Ching-fei14. Gifts of Good Fortune and Praise-Songs for Peace: Images of Auspicious Portents and Panegyrics from the Yongle Period - Lina Lin15. Enshrining the Dark Troops:The Printing of Daoist Books in the Early Ming Dynasty - Maggie Chui Ki Wan16. Faces of Transnational Buddhism at the Early Ming Court - Marsha Haufler17. The Early Ming Imperial Atelier on the Tibetan Frontier - Karl Debreczeny18. Religious Consciousness and Beliefs in the Ming Tombs of Princes and Royal Family Members in Hubei Province - Yuan Wenqing19. Paper Money of the Ming dynasty - examining the material evidence - Helen Wang, Caroline Cartwright20.
The Porcelain Pagoda; a persisting Enigma -Clarence Eng21. Architecture of the Early Ming Court: A Preliminary Look - Aurelia Campbell22. Investigating Zheng He's Ships: What is Known and Knowable? - Sally Church23. Trees and stones are only what they are: Translating Ming Empire in the Fifteenth Century - Carla Nappi24. Building Cultural Authority in Early Joseon Korea (1400-1450) - Lee Soomi25. The Book of the Five Relationships: Thoughts on Mid-Fifteenth-Century Court Confucianism -Sarah Schneewind26. Looking East, Looking West: the Artistic Connections of Ming of China and Timurid Iran - Priscilla Soucek27. Precious Stones and Ming Culture, 1400-1450 - Craig Clunas28.
Ming Ceramics Discovered in Kenya and Some Related Issues - Qin Dashu29. Traces of the Zheng He Voyages in Late-Ming Navigational Materials -Timothy BrookAuthors' biographiesBibliographyIndex.