| Abstrakt: |
Focusing on a brief but comparatively well-documented uprising in 1510 in the important frontier city of Ningxia, this essay explores the composition of the Anhua Prince's inner circle, the place of his court in local society, particularly its intimate connections to the local officer corps, and finally how imperial princes figured in the wider discourse of the Ming polity. This essay begins with a few words on the Qing House, to which the Anhua Prince belonged, moves to the prince's imperial pretensions and the uprising itself, and then examines the lengthy deliberations over defining the crimes and punishing the conspirators. It concludes with some observations about the revolt's relevance for understanding provincial courts during the Ming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
