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Historical context
Ming dynasty
CHIC chapter 8; CC chapter 8.
On Zheng He and the hoax the Zheng He traveled to the US and Australia: GREAT VOYAGES: ZHENG HE by the Penn Museum.
A podcast episode on the Ming bureaucratic system by the Chinese History Podcast.
Qing Dynasty
CHIC chapters 9 and 10; CC chapter 10 and 11.
A podcast episode about Zhang Zhilong and his maritime empire, http://www.chinesehistorypodcast.com/
Options for class readings
“On the Child-like Heart-Mind,” Tongxin shuo 童心說 by Li Zhi 李贄 (1527-1602 CE), in Pualine C. Lee, Li Zhi 李贄, Confucianism and the Virtue of Desire.
Santangelo, Paolo. “Emotions and Love. Philosophical Representation of Passions: Emotions and Human Nature in Neo-Confucian Thought”. In The Culture of Love in China and Europe, (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019)
Li, Wai-Yee. “Heroic Transformations: Women and National Trauma in Early Qing Literature.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59, no. 2 (1999): 363–443.