Zhu ming biography examples

“What’s a nice Jewish girl like you doing writing about the Ming founding?”

A California-based literary agent once asked me this after I proposed a novel about the story of the fourteenth-century Ming Dynasty founder, Zhu Yuanzhang.

How to reply?

I mentioned that I’m not actually Jewish, but I knew that was not the point of the question. The agent was trying to tell me that he thought it strange to hear the idea for such a book coming from someone who is not Chinese.

Maybe it is strange. And, needless to say, that agent didn&#;t bite.

But what I found stranger, as I was researching the Ming, is the fact that this incredible story is missing from the category of historical fiction written in English. Genghis Khan yes. Empress Dowager Cixi yes. Liu Bei and Cao Cao yes and yes. Empress Wu yes. Zhu Yuanzhang no.

Now, China has had a lot of dynasties, and each one of them had a founder with a strong personality. But even among the lists of all Chinese rulers,

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"The work of East Village Artist Zhu Ming is equally important in the development of performance art in the s China. In Zhu Ming's performances, his body often forms a zone where the physical and the social meet and collapse."

Thomas J. Berghuis

Born in Hunan Province in and a Beijing resident since , Zhu Ming gained international recognition with the collective work, "To Add Another Metre to an Anonymous Mountain, in Beijing, ". He soon became a leading figure of the East Village, a cradle for the most experimental artists in China. His oeuvre, which deals with theme of vulnerability, is distinguished by great conceptual concision and often restricted to closed environments. The concepts of isolation and vulnerability speak to the explicit and implicit pain that results from both external and internal forces; forces which are socially and intuitionally oppressive, and psychologically driven. The idea of the bubble was derived from Zhu Ming’s experience of washing clot

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Rise of the Ming Dynasty

Ming dynasty founder kejsare Hongwu, or Zhu Yuanzhang, was born into poverty, and spent part of his ungdom wandering the country after his parents died following a series of natural disasters centered around the Yellow River.

He spent several years begging for a Buddhist kloster, and several more living there, but that life came to an end when a militia burned it down to quell a rebellion.

In , Taizu joined a rebel group related to the vit Lotus samhälle and rose up the ranks speedily, eventually leading a successful invasion on the city of Nanjing, which he used as a base to lash out at regional warlords.

Taizu’s ultimate quarry was the Mongolian rulers of the Yuan empire. Taizu captured Beijing in , destroying the palaces, sending the Mongolian rulers fleeing and announcing the Ming Dynasty.

Builders of China's Great Wall

Taizu

Emperor Taizu’s empire was one of military discipline and respect of authority, with a fierce sense of justice.