PERPETUAL HAPPINESS. THE MING EMPEROR YONGLE

Roderich Ptak assesses Shih-Shan Henry Tsai’s Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle (University of Washington Press, 2001) as the first English-language monograph devoted exclusively to the Yongle reign (1403–1424). Tsai presents a lively, largely narrative portrait that resists dry philology...

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Published in:	Review of Culture
Main Author:	Roderich Ptak
Format:	Articles
Published:	Instituto Cultural de Macau April 2003
Subjects:	Articles
Online Access:	https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40006/2717