Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle.(Book Review)

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

By SHIH-SHAN HENRY TSAI. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Pp. 270, illus. $32.50.

Having presented a remarkably sympathetic picture of eunuchs in Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty to counterbalance the stereotype of scheming, greedy, and demonic castrati, Shih-shan Henry Tsai takes on another controversial subject of Ming History in Perceptual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle. As suggested by the title of the book, the image Emperor Yongle invokes in this study is primarily that of a sage-king mindful of the everlasting well-being of his subjects and his ...

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