The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World

• Main Author: Struve, Lynn A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Hawai'i Press 2019
• Subjects: Asian history; Dreams & their interpretation; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; History; Asian Studies; Cultural Studies; Anthropology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

From the mid-sixteenth through the end of the seventeenth century, Chinese intellectuals attended more to dreams and dreaming-and in a wider array of genres-than in any other period of Chinese history. Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious yet accessible work aims both to describe...