IMPERIAL HISTORY AND BROADENING HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN LATE MING CHINA. (May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ditmanson, Peter
• Is Part Of: Ming studies. Number 71(2015)
• Page Start: 23
• Page End: 40
• Publication Date: 2015-05
• Subjects: historiography -- Chen Jian -- Wang Zudi -- Zhang Juzheng -- Jiajing emperor -- Wanli emperor; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Periodicals; China -- Civilization -- 960-1644 -- Periodicals; 951.02605
• DOI: 10.1179/0147037X15Z.00000000037
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0147-037X

Abstract

Abstract : The evolution of Ming politics was strongly shaped by the development of an expanding interest in the history of the court and the dynasty. In the early years, records of the court were tightly controlled at the capital. But, by the sixteenth century, these records could no longer be controlled and private historiography flourished, competing with and challenging the official history of the dynasty.