ZHENG HE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PLAUSIBILITY OF 450-FT TREASURE SHIPS Dr. Sally K. Church This paper examines the issues and arguments surrounding the question of whether Zheng He’s 鄭和ships could have been the size recorded in the official Ming history (Ming shi 明史), that is, 44 zhang long by 18 zhang wide, or 447 by… Read More »
Impressions of early 13th century Central Asia as seen through the Poetry of Yelü Chucai 耶律楚材 (Yeh-lü Ch’u-ts’ai) (1190-1244) by Dr. Sally K Church (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Qiu Jiangning 邱江宁 (Zhejiang Normal University) The paper we presented in Cambridge contained a large amount of introductory material, not only about Yelü Chucai himself, but also… Read More »
On October 18th Dr. Sally Church gave a guest lecture at the Department of History, Nanjing University, together with Prof. Qiu Jiangning of Zhejiang Normal University. The topic was: “Impressions of Early 13th century Central Asia as seen in the poetry of Yelü Chucai”. Prof. Qiu Jiangning was a visiting scholar at the University of… Read More »
The Deoksugung Palace in the centre of Seoul served as the king’s residence twice during the Joseon dynasty, during the reign of Prince Wolsan (1454-1488) and his descendants, and during that of King Seonjo (r. 1567-1608), in 1593.