The orientation of Han Chinese intellectuals after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) : a case study of Wei Xi (1624-1681) = Ming wang hou Han zu zhi shi fen zi de qu xiang : Wei Xi ge an yan jiu

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuk-tung Wong
Keyword(s):  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Chinese Intellectuals ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

scholarly journals Distribution and Integration of Military Settlements’ Cultural Heritage in the Large Pass City of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty: A Case Study of Juyong Pass Defense Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7166
Author(s):  
Yukun Zhang ◽  
Songyang Li ◽  
Lifeng Tan ◽  
Jiayin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
North West ◽  
Cultural Routes ◽  
Great Wall ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

The Great Wall of China is more than a wall: it is an extensive cultural route. Pass cities, which are usually large defensive fortresses overseeing an entire fortified area, are an essential part of this heritage and are at the core of the Great Wall’s defense system. Juyong Pass was the closest Pass city to Beijing during the Ming Dynasty when the Great Wall reached its peak. It consisted of five regions—south, east, north, west, and central—that form three fortification levels: core castle, Bao city, and End facility. Based on the Juyong defense area military settlements database, this paper applied spatial analysis methods and found that more than half of the military’s resources for the whole defense area were focused on the western part of the wall, which formed another military core alongside Juyong Pass city. However, the current conservation strategy only focuses on Juyong Pass itself, neglecting the settlements in the western part, thereby destroying the integrity of the Great Wall’s heritage. By clarifying the distribution of cultural heritage in this area, we hope to encourage the preservation of many fortifications according to their authentic historical sphere of control and provide a reference for the sustainable integration of resources along the significant cultural routes of the Great Wall.

Discovering endangered Tibetic varieties in the easternmost Tibetosphere

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Suzuki ◽  
Sonam Wangmo
Keyword(s):  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Local Variety ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

Dartsendo (Dar-rtse-mdo in Written Tibetan), generally known as Kangding, is a town in the easternmost Tibetosphere, located in Ganzi (dKar-mdzes) Prefecture, Sichuan, China. This town has played an important role for the tea-horse trade since the Ming Dynasty, and is inhabited by both Tibetan and Han Chinese. Under these circumstances, extensive language contact has existed for a long time. Dartsendo Tibetan is the Minyag Rabgang vernacular of Khams Tibetan, and it was once considered as a lingua franca-like variety in the Minyag Rabgang area. However, Dartsendo Tibetan is currently facing extinction. This paper will discuss: (1) the historical background and language situation in Dartsendo, (2) the current language situation of Tibetic languages spoken in the centre of the Town, and 3) the process of endangerment of the local variety. Based on these descriptions, this paper will also propose a method for identifying endangered varieties in the Tibetic languages.

scholarly journals Translator Management: A Case Study of the Ming-Dynasty’s Ethnic House

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-142
Author(s):  
Ping Li ◽  
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Tian Chuanmao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Contingency Theory ◽  
Contingency Management ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
Leadership Management ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

Translator management may be seen as the use of some management methods to manage translators in a certain environment so as to achieve a certain management purpose and improve operational efficiency. The present study applies contingency theory of management to the case study of translator management in the Ethnic House in the Ming Dynasty, focusing on its organisational designs, model of leadership, management methods, and needs and incentives. The findings show that there are no unified models for translator management methods, and today’s translation companies and institutions are expected to follow certain management laws and make certain adjustments based on the external and internal environments as well as the qualifications and needs of managers and translators and establish a system of contingency management in order to promote the healthy and orderly development of the language service industry.

Local narrative and outsider imagination in a Chinese landscape

Focaal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (64) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Southwestern China ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Total Process ◽  
Embodied Engagement ◽  
People Group ◽  
The Ming Dynasty

In recent years, the culturally distinctive Tunpu, a people group in southwestern China, have been reimagined by outsiders, including media, tourist companies, scholars, and especially Han Chinese from other regions in a search for perceived lost roots of Chineseness. Building upon a Tunpu narrative of migration to the region during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) period, these outsiders imagine Tunpu sociocultural alienness to be representative of ancient unchanged Ming-period character. Thus romanticized, the Tunpu become an unspoiled reservoir where an authentic national Chinese essence can be rediscovered. Through a complex process of embodied engagement with the Tunpu landscape and its objects, however, it is a class of non-Tunpu settlement that becomes celebrated by these outside actors as ideal representation of Tunpu settlement and architecture. This total process fundamentally transforms Tunpu time and place. Yet, it also interacts intricately with local knowledge, and leads to complex local responses and reappropriations of new historical elements.

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