A new version of the Chinese-Vietnamese vocabulary of the ming dynasty—I

1975 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
African Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

The existence of a Chinese-Vietnamese vocabulary (i-yü) of the sixteenth century was first brought to the attention of Western scholars by E. Denison Ross in 1908, p. 692, in his discussion of the R. G. Morrison Collection manuscript entitled Ko-huo i-yü, then in the library of University College, London, and now held in the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Between the Islamic and Chinese Universal Empires: The Ottoman Empire, Ming Dynasty, and Global Age of Explorations

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 422-456
Author(s):  
Yuan Julian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
The Self ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Age Of Exploration ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

Abstract This article studies two sixteenth-century Asian texts: Khitay namah, a Persian travelogue about the Ming dynasty written by the Muslim merchant Ali Akbar and presented to the Ottoman sultan, and Xiyu, an illustrated Chinese geographical treatise with detailed travel itinerary from China to Istanbul by the Ming scholar-official Ma Li. In addition to demonstrating the breadth of Ottoman and Chinese knowledge about each other in the global Age of Exploration, these two books, written respectively for the monarchs of the self-proclaimed Islamic and Chinese universal empires, reflect the Ottoman and Chinese imperial ideologies in an era when major world powers aggressively vied for larger territories and broader international influence. Both the Ottoman and Chinese authors recast the foreign Other as the familiar Self – Ali Akbar constructed an Islamized China while Ma Li depicted a Sinicized Ottoman world – to justify their countries’ claims to universal sovereignty and plans for imperial expansion. Like many contemporary European colonial writers, Ali Akbar’s and Ma Li’s exploration of foreign societies, their literary glorification of their own culture’s supremacy, and their imposition of their own cultural thinking on foreign lands all served their countries’ colonial enterprise in the global Age of Exploration.

scholarly journals Plus ça change: four decades of African studies bibliography

2001 ◽  
Vol 1999 ◽  
pp. vii-xix ◽  
Author(s):  
John McIlwaine
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Perceived Needs ◽  
University College ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

I had originally thought of calling this piece, with a startlinglack of originality, ‘Forty years on’. It is after all exactly forty years since my own existing interests in African bibliography became formalised when I followed the option ‘Oriental and African bibliography’ at the School of Library Studies, University College London, taught by J.D. Pearson, the Librarian of the School of Oriental and African Studies. I later came to teach thisoption myself, from 1965 onwards, and indeed to follow Pearson by becoming the second to hold a chair entitled ‘Professor of the Bibliography of Asia and Africa in the University of London’. And in 2002 it will be forty years since SCOLMA (Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa) was founded, the body that has done most in the U.K. to respond to the perceived needs of African bibliography, and one with which I have been associated for many years.

University College, London. 26th June 1983

Moreana ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (Number 157- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Michael Screech
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Century Thought

The author examines the paradox between madness and foolishness in early sixteenth century thought and in Biblical scholarship. He goes on to explore the seeming contradictions in the veneration of historical characters who adopted opposing views, particularly in the early 16th century.

Taiwan as an Entrepôt in East Asia in the Seventeenth Century

Itinerario ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ts'ao Yung-Ho
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Fertile Island ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

Taiwan is strategically situated within East Asia, but little is known of it until the sixteenth century. The Chinese spread far and wide throughout Asia even before the Christian era, but allowed this large and fertile island lying so close to the Mainland to remain in relative obscurity until the middle of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The cause of this isolation is that Taiwan had no large quantities of marketable products to attract traders and that the island still lay outside the network of Asian trade routes of the time.

‘The Wuding Editions’: Printing, Power, and Vernacular Fiction in the Ming Dynasty

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott W. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Vernacular Fiction ◽  
Shuihu Zhuan ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

The vernacular fiction ‘novel’ is a genre typically associated with the explosion of commercial printing activity that occurred in the late sixteenth century. However, by that time, representative works such as theShuihu zhuanandSanguo yanyihad already been in print for several decades. Moreover, those early print editions were printed not by commercial entities but rather the elite of the Jiajing court. In order to better understand the genre as a print phenomenon, this paper explores the publishing output of one of those elites: Guo Xun (1475-1542), Marquis of Wuding. In addition to vernacular fiction, Guo printed a number of other types of books as well. This paper examines the entirety of his publishing activities in order to better contextualize the vernacular novel at this early stage in its life in print.

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