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Screen of Kings

The first work in any language devoted to aristocratic culture in Ming China, this book required the identification, collection, translation and synthesis of very large quantities of primary source materials in classical Chinese, as well as secondary journal literature in modern Chinese, including for example 28 archaeological excavation reports. A six-week research trip to China under the British Academy-CASS agreement also generated large quantities of previously unstudied visual evidence (over 600 photographs taken in three provinces). The integration of this data into a wholly new argument about Ming society then involved lengthy reading in comparative literature on court cultures globally.