Culture, Courtiers, and Competition

Preliminary Material --Introduction --The Ming Court --Bestowing the Double-edged Sword: Wanli as Supreme Military Commander /Kenneth M. Swope --The Eunuch Agency Directorate of Ceremonial and the Ming Imperial Publishing Enterprise /Scarlett Jang --The Jiajing Emperor's Interaction with His Lecturers /Hung-lam Chu --Didactic Picturebooks for Late Ming Emperors and Princes /Julia K. Murray --Imperial Agency in Ming Music Culture /Joseph S. C. Lam --Tibetan Buddhism and the Creation of the Ming Imperial Image /Dora C. Y. Ching --The Ming Court and the Legacy of the Yuan Mongols --Index --Harvard East Asian Monographs.