Henry Shih-shan Tsai. Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle.(Book Review)

China Review International | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 270 pp. Hardcover $32.50, ISBN 0-295-98109-1.

Biography in Western studies of Chinese history has long been an underdeveloped area. By contrast, a cursory check of an Internet bookseller turns up some twenty-five biographies of the English king Henry VIII, a dozen of Elizabeth I, several for the Spanish king Philip V, and similar multiple volumes for monarchs and ministers from France, Russia, Germany, and other European states. European and American historical publishing is replete with studies of the lives of ...

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