| The
James P. Geiss Foundation is especially pleased to provide
partial funding for the conference Ming Taizu and
His Times, a four-day international conference
on the history of 14th and early 15th-century China, to
be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in March
2006.
The conference focuses on the personality
and career of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty
posthumously known as Ming Taizu, but also explores and
reexamines the political and social institutions as well
as governmental practices he introduced that had great consequences
for the remaining five centuries of imperial China. Themes
concerning
institution building, statecraft learning, cultural integration,
will be developed to shed light on the ways and rationales
of empire/nation building, consolidation of the bureaucracy,
social control, and molding of values for the populace.
Because these themes have contemporary relevance
and the community of Ming historical and cultural studies
is burgeoning in East Asian countries and in the United
States and some European countries, the conference will
be able to draw large attention and exert influence upon
future research and learning of the subject.
To maximize its impact, the conference plans
to invite 25 to 30 top-notch specialists of Yuan and Ming
history from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore,
the United States, England, and France to present research
papers and engage in in-depth discussion during the gathering.
An edited volume of thematically related articles will be
published as a lasting contribution of the conference.
This conference is organized and hosted by
Professor Hung-lam Chu at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong and a noted senior scholar in Ming studies. For additional
information, please see Chinese introduction and application
form:
Chinese
Introduction to Ming Taizu and His Times
Ming
Taizu Application Form
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/his/
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