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Ideas, Determination, Power: How Zhang Juzheng Dominated China, 1572–82
dc.contributor.author | Dardess, John W. | |
dc.contributor.editor | Schneewind, Sarah | |
dc.contributor.editor | Tindall, Bruce M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-21T21:51:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-21T21:51:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-08 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Dardess, John W. Ideas, Determination, Power: How Zhang Juzheng Dominated China, 1572–82. Handwritten pencil manuscript on scrap paper, left unfinished by John W. Dardess. Transcribed by Bruce M. Tindall. Edited (lightly) by Sarah Schneewind and Bruce M. Tindall, 2021. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31865 | |
dc.description | This posthumous work was a “handwritten pencil manuscript on scrap paper, left unfinished" when John W. Dardess passed away on March 31, 2020. Bruce M. Tindall transcribed the manuscript, and was lightly edited by Sarah Schneewind and Bruce M. Tindall (1956-2021). | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582) was psychologically the most complex of Ming China’s chief grand secretaries. His rise owed something to an appealing combination of brilliance with diffidence and humility. He was learned, and mastered the literary arts of memorization, comprehension, and interpretation, and the articulation of these things in a clear and creative way in writing. But learning, for Zhang, was never enough. One’s learning, if thoroughly and conscientiously come by, must somehow find its appropriate impact and end in the rectified governance of a realm that after functioning in a faltering way for two centuries had developed some very serious problems. Anything less was just vapid talk. To prepare himself, Zhang joined learning with psychological self-strengthening to meet the political resistance that could be expected in the future. Zhang was not outgoing, but did share feats and frustrations with friendly colleagues in the field. Was Zhang Juzheng corrupt? Martyr complex. (Sarah Schneewind) | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | © The Estate of John W. Dardess, 2021 | en_US |
dc.publisher | © The Estate of John W. Dardess | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Center for East Asian Studies Scholarly Works; | |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://knit.ucsd.edu/minghistoryinenglish/ideas-determination-power-how-zhang-juzheng-dominated-china-1572-82/ | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Estate of John W. Dardess, 2021. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Zhang Juzheng | en_US |
dc.subject | Ming Dynasty | en_US |
dc.subject | grand secretaries | en_US |
dc.subject | corruption | en_US |
dc.subject | martyr complex | en_US |
dc.title | Ideas, Determination, Power: How Zhang Juzheng Dominated China, 1572–82 | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Dardess, John W. ( (January 17, 1937–March 31, 2020) | |
kusw.kudepartment | Center for East Asian Studies | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | History | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |