Glossary 3 Flashcards
Wanli Emperor
1573-1620
Steady decline of Ming Dynasty
History of Late Ming
Ming falls in 1644
Tianqi Perido
1620-1627
Emperor was immature and illiterate so Wei Zhongxian, eunuch, ruled
Weizhong Xian
Dragon Gate Inn eunuch
Effectively ruled Tianqi period
Chongzhen Emperor
1627-1644
Last Ming Emperor
Kunqu
Kun style opera
Tang Xianzu
1550-1617
Chinese playwright
“Peony Pavilion”
Also, “Four Dreams of Linchuan” and “Story of the Southern Branch”
“Peony Pavilion”
By Tang Xianzu Du Liniang, the lovely girl Liu Mengmei, the man The cult of qing 3 Wives Commentary
Miniature
小品文
A paradoxical meticulous authenticity, trying to be informal
Zhu Xi
Neo-Confucianism
The four books (Confucian Analects, Mencius, Doctrine of the Mean, Great Learning). Edited and compiled old texts because wanted tradition to be available to everyone, but had opposite effect as it became hollow memorization.
Zhang Dai
1599-1684
“Dream Memories of Tao-an”
“Tracing West Lake in a Dream”
Toponyms- place name
Synesthesia - “licking the eyes”
Octopartite essay
Eight legged essay for civil service exam
Wang Yangming
1427-1529
Neo-Confucianist scholar with Zhu Xi
Li Zhi
1527-1602 "On the Child Mind" A Book to be Burned, got him jailed, committed suicide Anti formalist Informal, authentic, iconoclasm
Yuan Hongdao
1568-1610
“Spider fighting”
Gong’an School
