John W. Dardess, Ming China, 1638– 1644 : A Concise History of a Resilient Empire, Plymouth, U. K. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012

Struve Lynn A. John W. Dardess, Ming China, 1638– 1644 : A Concise History of a Resilient Empire, Plymouth, U. K. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. In: Études chinoises, vol. 31, n°1,2012. pp. 169-173

The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World

From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming—and in a wider array of genres—than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this “dream arc” and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, religionists, litterateurs, memoirists, painters, doctors, and political figures of late Ming and early Qing times. The volume’s encompassing thesis asserts that certain associations of dreaming, grounded in the neurophysiology of the human brain at sleep—such as subjectivity, irrationality, the unbidden, lack of control, emotionality, spontaneity, the imaginal, and memory—when especially heightened by historical and cultural developments, are likely to pique interest in dreaming and generate florescences of dream-expression among intellectuals. The work thus makes a contribution to the history of how people have understood human consciousness in various times and cultures. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World is the most substantial work in any language on the historicity of Chinese dream culture. Within Chinese studies, it will appeal to those with backgrounds in literature, religion, philosophy, political history, and the visual arts. It will also be welcomed by readers interested in comparative dream cultures, the history of consciousness, and neurohistory.The open-access version of this book was made possible in part by an award from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation

The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-century China : “ My Service in the Army”, by Dzengšeo. Introduction, translation, and notes by Nicola Di Cosmo, 2006

Struve Lynn A. The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-century China : “ My Service in the Army”, by Dzengšeo. Introduction, translation, and notes by Nicola Di Cosmo, 2006. In: Études chinoises, n°25, 2006. pp. 408-411

The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-century China : “ My Service in the Army”, by Dzengšeo. Introduction, translation, and notes by Nicola Di Cosmo, 2006

Struve Lynn A. The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-century China : “ My Service in the Army”, by Dzengšeo. Introduction, translation, and notes by Nicola Di Cosmo, 2006. In: Études chinoises, n°25, 2006. pp. 408-411

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