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Contents Acknowledgements vii

Map viii

Chronology x

Introduction 1
Craig Clunas

Part 1: Rulership and War

1. Justifying Ming Rulership on a Eurasian Stage 8
David M. Robinson

2. Domination in Four Keys: Ming China and its 15
Southern Neighbours 1400–1450
Geoffrey Wade

3. Diplomacy, Trade and the Quest for the 26
Buddha’s Tooth: The Yongle Emperor and Ming
China’s South Asian Frontier
Tansen Sen

4. Causes and Consequences of the Ming 37
Intervention in Vietnam in the Early Fifteenth Century
Kenneth M. Swope

Part 2: Sites, Images and Objects of Power

5. Green Beijing: Ecologies of Movement in 46
the New Capital c. 1450
Jonathan Hay

6. Painting of the Imperial Palace and Zhu Bang 56
Yu Hui

7. The Empress’ Dragon Crown: Establishing 68
Symbols of Imperial Authority in the Early Ming
Luk Yu-ping

8. Early Ming Ceramics: Rethinking the Status 77
of Blue-and-White
Jessica Harrison-Hall

9. Zhu Quan, A Prince who Changed Ming Musical 87
History
Joseph S.C. Lam

10.Fashioning the Imperial Legacy: Yang Shiqi 94
and the Record of Imperial Pronouncements
Peter Ditmanson

11.Politics or Entertainment? Examining Jiangxi 99
Scholar Officials and Zhejiang Painters through
the Lens of the Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Yin Ji’nan

12. The Gradual Termination of the Early Ming 106
Voyages to the ‘Western Ocean’ and its Causes
Zhao Zhongnan