• Farmer, Edward L., Romeyn Taylor, & Ann Waltner. Ming History: An Introductory Guide to Research. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis History Department, 1995.

• Franke, Wolfgang. An Introduction to the Sources of Ming History. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1968.

• Shin, Leo, The Making of the Chinese State: Ethnicity and Expansion on the Ming Borderlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• Shulman, Frank Joseph, compiler and editor, with contributions by Patricia Polansky & Anna Leon Shulman. Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia, 1976-1990: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, October 1998. xxviii, 1055p. (Bibliographies and indexes in Asian studies, no.2). Several hundred doctoral dissertations dealing in their entirety or in part with Ming period China are included within this new, comprehensive, descriptively annotated, classified, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to over 10,000 dissertations on China, Hong Kong, Macao, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet and the overseas Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan communities.

• Twitchett, Denis, & Frederick W. Mote, eds. The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Volumes Seven and Eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), providing the largest and most detailed account in any language. Both volumes also include extensive bibliographic notes.
  Contents: Introduction - Frederick W. Mote; 1. The Rise of the Ming Dynasty, 1330-1367 - Frederick W. Mote; 2. Military Origins of Ming China - Edward L. Dreyer. The Hung-wu Reign, 1368-1398 - John D. Langlois, Jr.; The Chien-wen, Yung-lo, Hung-hsi, and Hsuan-te Reigns, 1399-1435 - Hok-lam Chan; 5. The Cheng-t'ung, Ching-t'ai, and T'ien-shun Reigns, 1436-1464 - Denis Twitchet and Tilemann Grimm; 7. The Cheng-te Reign, 1506-1521 - James Geiss; 8. The Chia-ching Reign, 1522-1566 - James Geiss; 9. The Lung-ch'ing and Wan-li Reigns, 1567-1620 - Ray Huang; 10. The T'ai-ch'ang, T'ien-ch'i, and Ch'ung-chen Reigns, 1620-1644 - William Atwell; 11. The Southern Ming, 1644-1662 - Lynn A. Struve; 12. Historical Writing During the Ming - Wolfgang Franke.

• ---. The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2, 1997. Summarizing all modern research, Volume Eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion. Although written by specialists, these volumes intend to explain and describe the Ming period to general readers without a specialized knowledge of Chinese history, as well as scholars and students.
  Contents: Introduction - Frederick W. Mote & Denis Twitchett; 1. Ming Government - Charles O. Hucker; 2. Ming Fiscal Administration - Ray Huang; 3. Ming Law - John D. Langlois, Jr.; 4. The Ming and Inner Asia - Morris Rossabi; 5. Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming - Donald N. Clark; 6. Ming Foreign Relations: South-East Asia - Wang Gung-wu; 7. Relations with Maritime Europeans, 1514-1662 - John E. Wills, Jr.; 8. Ming China and the emerging World Economy - William Atwell; 9. The Socio-economic development of Rural China under the Ming - Martin Heijdra; 10. Communications and Commerce - Timothy Brook; 11. Confucian Learning in late Ming Thought - Willard Peterson; 12. Learning from Heaven: the introduction of Christianity and of Western ideas into late Ming China - Willard Peterson; 13. Official Religion in the Ming - Romeyn Taylor; 14. Ming Buddhism - Y?Chun-fang; 15. Taoism in Ming culture - Judith A. Berling.

• Wang, Richard T. Ming Studies in Japan 1961-1981: A Classified Bibliography. Ming Research Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

• Zheng, Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

  Recent Works:

• Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

• Dardess, John. A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

• Dardess, John. Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

• Grove, Linda, & Christian Daniels, eds. State and Society in China: Japanese Perspectives on Ming-Qing Social and Economic History. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1984.

• Huang, Ray. 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

• McLaren, Anne. Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. Study of a set of traditional texts that contain an oral genre favored in popular society in the 15th century.

• Naquin, Susan. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

• Roy, David, trans. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei. Volume One: "The Gathering." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

• Standaert, Nicolas, ed. Handbook of Christianity in China, Volume One: 635-1800. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001.

• Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.

• von Glahn, Richard. Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

• Waldron, Arthur. The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

• Wilson, Thomas A. Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

(1) Recent Biographic Indexes

• Combined Indexes to Eighty-nine Collections of Ming Dynasty Biographies. Harvard-Yenching Index. 3 vols. 1935. Not new, but basic. See Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 104

• Goodrich, L. Carrington, & Fang Chao-ying, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography, 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

• Gu jin tu shu ji cheng zhong Ming ren zhuan ji suo yin 古 今 圖 書 集 成 中 明 人 傳 記 料 索 引. Hong Kong, 1963. Index to biographies of Ming people in the Gu jin tu shu ji cheng.

• Mindai tokaroku sakuin ko 明 登 科 錄 索 引 稿. Compiled at Kyoto University by the Institute of Humanistic Studies, the "Late-Ming Early-Ch'ing Society and Culture Research Group," 1995.

• Ming Qing li ke ti ming bei lu suo yin 明 清 歷 科 題 名 碑 錄 索 引 . 4 vols. Taipei, 1969. For jin shi 進 士. Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 105

• National Central Library (Taiwan), Ming ren zhuan ji zi liao suo yin 明 人 傳 記 資 料 索 引. 2 vols. 1965/66. See Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 104; and Ming Studies 1 (1975) 66-78

• Yamane Yukio 山 根 幸 夫. Nihon genzon Mindai chihoshi denki sakuin ko 日 本 現 存 明 代 地 方 誌 傳 索 引 稿 (Index to Ming biographies in local gazetteers in Japan) Tokyo, Toyo bunko, 1964.

• ---. Nihon genson Minjin bunshu mokuroku 日 本 現 存 明 人 文 書 目 錄 (Index to collected writings of Ming authors in Japanese libraries). Tokyo, 1966 See Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 144. Also 1978 revised version by Yamane, Kyoto: Toyoshi kenkyukai 東 洋 史 研 究 會, 1972.)

(2) Translations of government offices and titles

Hucker, Charles. "An Index of Terms and Titles in the Governmental Organization of the Ming Dynasty." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 23 (1960/61) 127-51.

• ---, ed. Chinese Government in Ming Times: Seven Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

• ---. "Governmental Organization of the Ming Dynasty" Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 21 (1958): 1-66.

• Wu, Silas. "The Transmission of Ming Memorials," T'oung-Pao 54 (1978): 275-87.

(3) Bibliographies

• Allsen, T. A. "Lists of current bibliography in Western languages," Ming Studies 1 (1975): 60-65; 2 (1976): 38-42.

• ---. "Survey of Recent Soviet Contributions to Ming History," Ming Studies 1 (1975): 14-35.

• Chan, Hok-lam "Bibliographic Survey of Ming Studies in Archeological Periodicals from the PRC, 1972-1975." Ming Studies 2 (1976): 43-56.

• Gong Huayang, compiler. "Works on Ming History (1991)." Ming Studies 37 (1997): 22-95.

• Higgins, R. L. "Doctoral Dissertations on the Ming Dynasty." Ming Studies 1 (1975): 36-59.

• Huang Yuji 黃 虞 稷 (d. 1691). Qian qing tang shu mu 千 頃 堂 書 目. Reprint, Shanghai, 1935. Library catalog list of Ming books. See Teng, Ssu-yu, & Knight Biggerstaff. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 17; Franke, Wolfgang. An Introduction to the Sources of Ming History. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1968, p. 25.

• Li Jinhua 李 晉 華. Ming dai ji zhuan shu kao 明 代 紀 傳 疏 考. Harvard Yenching Index, Supplement . 1932. A bibliography of official publications issued by Ming emperors.

• ---. Ming shi zuan xiu kao 明 史 纂 修 考. YCHP, 1933.

• Ma, T. L., et al. "Recent Ming Bibliography in Chinese Periodicals," Ming Studies 3 (1976) : 31-35.

• Mindai dokaroku sakuin ko 明 登 科 錄 索 引 稿, compiled at Kyoto University by the Institute of Humanistic Studies, Late-Ming Early-Ch'ing Society and Culture Research Group, 1995.

• Nishimura Gensho. "Historical Studies in Japan, 1974: Ming-Ch'ing," Ming Studies 3 (1976): 19-30.

• Tian zhong ji 天 中 紀. 1569. A Ming encyclopedia, of possible interest because of the "very miscellaneous" information in it. See Teng, Ssu-yu, & Knight Biggerstaff. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 93.

• Yamane Yukio 山 根 幸 夫, Mindaishi kenkyu bunken mokuroku 明 代 史 研 究 文 件 目 錄 (Bibliography of works on the study of Ming history). Tokyo, 1960. Books and articles in Chinese and Japanese on Ming history.

• Zhao Lingyang, Ming shi lu zhong zhi Dong nan ya shi liao 明 實 錄 中 之 東 亞 史 料. 2 vols. Hong Kong, 1968. Selections from the MSL relating to Southeast Asia. See Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 67.

(4) Other Sources

• Brook, Timothy. Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.

• Mote, Frederick W. Review of An Annotated Catalog of the Rare Books in the Gest Collection of Princeton University Library. CEAL Newsletter 43 (1974) 23-28. Discussion of Ming rare books.

• Stackmann, Ulrich. Die Geschichte der Chinesischen Bibliotek Tian Yi Ge vom 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990.

• Wilkison, Wade F. "Newly Discovered Ming Dynasty Guard Registers." Ming Studies 3 (1976): 36-45.

• Standaert, Nicolas, Ad Dudink, Yi-long Huang, & Pingyi Chu, compilers and editors. Xujiahui cang shu lou Ming Qing Tian zhu jiao wen xian 徐 家 匯 藏 書 樓 明 清 天 主 教 文 獻 (Archives of Catholicism in Ming-Qing China from the Hsu-chia-hui [in Shanghai] Repository of Books). Taipei: Fu-jen University Divinity School, 1996.

• For Ming merchant route manuals, see Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 123.

• Foreign travellers to Ming China: see Wilkinson, Endymion. The History of Imperial China: A Research Guide. Cambridge: Harvard East Asia Monograph, 1973, p. 188.

• For bibliographies on Ming foreign relations, see Franke, Wolfgang. An Introduction to the Sources of Ming History. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1968, p. 202.

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