Research on the Economic History of Dali in the Late Ming Dynasty under the Background of Social Transformation

The Ming dynasty was one of the most prosperous dynasties in ancient China and one of the most distinctive and important periods in the history of Chinese feudal society. The late Ming dynasty was an important turning point in social and economic development. In the context of social transformation, the development of commercial agriculture caused structural changes in the agricultural economy and rural society; the prosperity of regional commercial trade, the growth of merchant power and the formation of inter-regional market networks created a new stage in the development of regional commerce. This paper examines the economic development of the Dali region in the late Ming dynasty from a regional perspective against the backdrop of social transformations, taking into account the economic development of the region in the late Ming dynasty in terms of factor inputs and outputs of economic activities, foreign trade and commercial development, and finance and finance. The findings of this paper can provide a reference for deepening the study of regional economic history and promoting regional economic development.

On the Female Images in Feng Menglong's "Three Volumes of Stories"

Feng Menglong’s "Three Volumes of Stories" involves many female images. "Being bought and sold at arbitrarily" was the common destiny of women in that period; "cheating for love" was a new love choice made by women under the influence of the Enlightenment in the late Ming Dynasty; "getting married" can be said to be the resistance of women who were forced to fall in the past dynasties to their fate.

The Influence of Jiangnan Collectors on Artistic Vitality in the Late Ming Dynasty

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the artistic vitality in the late Ming Dynasty from three different perspectives: social function, collector group and collector noumenon. Art in the late Ming Dynasty is in a vigorous development trend. Through a series of collection activities of three representative collectors in Jiangnan area Xiang Yuanbian, Dong Qichang and Li Rihua, the vivid picture of art collection is connected, the historical situation of art creation in the late Ming Dynasty is reproduced, and the influence of collectors in Jiangnan on art vitality in the late Ming Dynasty is elaborated.

Taking Late Ming Dynasty Printmaking as an Example to Analyze the Influence of Consumption on the Development Direction of Art

From the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, great changes have taken place in the history of the world, called the “Great Navigation era”, which has gradually opened the prelude to “globalization”. China in the late Ming Dynasty was just in this division point, from economy to thought, all blooming in the elegance of an empire, and the book publishing industry in Ming Dynasty developed rapidly and brightly with the blessing of the Ming Taizu’s “imperial edict except book tax”. Book illustration is inspired by the original function of reading picture interpretation and on essential means of participating in market competition. Illustration books are very popular, almost to the point that there is no book without intention. At the same time, the illustration transitioned from narrative to decorative. This change relates to the fact that the illustration has changed from narrative to decorative. It is because of the change in their demand that the citizen class has become the key customer group to have a great relationship, which has led to a change in art illustration in the late Ming Dynasty.

Seng Zhao’s The Immutability of Things and Responses to It in the Late Ming Dynasty

Seng Zhao and his collection of treatises, the Zhao lun, have enjoyed a particularly high reputation in the history of Chinese Buddhism. One of these treatises, The Immutability of Things, employs the Madhyamaka argumentative method of negating dualistic concepts to demonstrate that, while “immutability” and “mutability” coexist as the states of phenomenal things, neither possesses independent self-nature. More than a thousand years after this text was written, Zhencheng’s intense criticism of it provoked fierce reactions among a host of renowned scholar–monks. This paper explores Zhencheng’s main points as well as the perspectives and motives of his principal adversaries in order to shed light on the nature of philosophical discourse during the late Ming dynasty.