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The author details the sufferings of a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction", who suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. The author compares the Donglin affair to the events that took place in…

Bronze; height 184 cm

Later editions titled Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Printed at the Caradoc Press, Chiswick.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Facsimile (1992) of the Codex Mendoza. Original document at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

This work looks into the Chinese social system for clues to the origin of the Ming autocracy, focusing on the role of Confucian doctrines in the rise of the Ming. He examines the elite stratum within Chinese society and the community of men broadly…

This book explores the transitions in rulership in late Yuan China beginning with a break with the empire founded by Genghis Khan and ending with the Yuan’s diminished power over China proper and finally the collapse of the dynasty. Critical to this…

Drawing; black lithograph crayon on wove, machine-made paper.