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Ming claim to the Yuan mandate and denial of rebel legitimacy

The Ming claim to the Yuan mandate (正统论与斥红巾) was Zhu Yuanzhang's founding policy claiming he took China from rebels, not the Yuan, while banning the Red Turban sects.

Ming conquest of Dai Ngu

The Ming conquest of Dai Ngu (1406–1407) was the Ming dynasty's invasion of the Vietnamese kingdom of Dai Ngu, led by the general Zhang Fu.

Ming conquest of Đại Việt

The Ming–Hồ War (1406–1407) was China's Ming invasion of Vietnam under the Yongle emperor, ending in the annexation of Đại Việt as the province of Jiaozhi.

Ming conquest of Fujian and Guangdong

The Ming conquest of Fujian and Guangdong was a 1368 campaign in which Ming fleets under Liao Yongzhong took Fuzhou and Guangzhou, capturing Chen Youding and accepting He Zhen's surrender.

Ming court painting (明代宮廷繪畫) is the painting made by professional artists serving the Ming imperial court in China (1368–1644), which revived the realistic Southern Song academic style and flourished from 1426 to 1505.

Ming dynasty (明朝)

Ming dynasty (明朝, 1368–1644), the Chinese imperial dynasty founded by Zhu Yuanzhang after the Yuan, with capitals at Nanjing and Beijing, Zheng He's voyages, a silver economy, and collapse in 1644 to the Qing.

Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain

Ming dynasty blue-and-white porcelain (明代青花瓷) is Chinese porcelain of 1368 to 1644 painted with cobalt under a transparent glaze and fired once, made chiefly at Jingdezhen and exported worldwide.

Ming dynasty of Kokand

The Ming dynasty of Kokand was the Uzbek ruling house of the Khanate of Kokand, founded by Shahrukh Biy in 1709 and ended by Russian annexation in 1876.

Ming dynasty temple sculpture

Ming dynasty temple sculpture is the Buddhist and Daoist painted clay statuary produced for Chinese temple halls from 1368 to 1644, with its finest surviving ensembles in Shanxi.

Ming Expeditionary Forces in Korea

The Ming Expeditionary Forces in Korea (명군) were Ming Chinese armies sent to Choson Korea in 1592 and 1597 to fight the Japanese invasions alongside Korean forces.

Ming Great Wall (明长城)

Ming Great Wall (明长城): the 1368–1644 Ming-dynasty fortification system, the largest and best-preserved part of the Great Wall of China, running from Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan, about 8,850 km, administered by 11 military towns.

Ming History Bureau

The Ming History Bureau (明史馆) was the Qing dynasty office set up to compile the official Ming History, reopened in 1723; its work took over ninety years.

Ming intervention in Korea

The Ming intervention in Korea was the dispatch of Chinese armies by the Ming dynasty to aid Joseon Korea against Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1592 invasion, with Li Rusong's army recapturing Pyeongyang in January 1593.

Sep 19, 2026

Ming Liu

Ming Liu (刘明) is a Chinese robotics professor at HKUST and founder of Unity Drive Innovation (一清创新, UDI), a Shenzhen autonomous-driving company founded in 2018 whose unmanned vehicles operate in over 160 parks.

Ming Naval Forces under Chen Lin

The Ming Naval Forces under Chen Lin (진린 수군) were the Chinese fleet sent to Korea in 1598, joining Yi Sun-sin for the war's final naval battles.

Ming Northern Expedition and the Fall of Dadu

The Ming Northern Expedition and the Fall of Dadu (明军北伐与大都陷落) was Zhu Yuanzhang's 1367 campaign, led by Xu Da, that captured the Yuan capital Dadu in 1368.

Sep 20, 2026

Ming O. Li

Ming O. Li is a Chinese-born American immunologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who defined TGF-β as a central regulator of T cell immunity and cancer immunosurveillance.

Ming occupation administration of Jiaozhi

The Ming occupation administration of Jiaozhi (交趾承宣布政使司) was the colonial provincial government Ming China set up over Dai Viet after conquering it in 1407, until its 1427 withdrawal.

Ming occupation policies in Dai Viet

Ming occupation policies in Dai Viet (Chính sách cai trị của nhà Minh ở Đại Việt) were the measures by which Ming China governed Dai Viet as its province of Jiao-zhi from 1407.

Ming policy toward Tibet: dharma kings and tribute missions

Ming policy toward Tibet (明治藏政策) was the Ming dynasty's framework for the Tibetan region of Ü-Tsang, conferring dharma-king and prince titles on Buddhist hierarchs and regulating their tribute missions to the court.

Ming provincial administration: the Three Provincial Offices (Sansi)

The Three Provincial Offices, or sansi (三司制度), was the Ming dynasty's system of provincial government, created by the Hongwu emperor in 1376 to divide provincial power among three offices.

Ming recognition embassy of 1431

The Ming recognition embassy of 1431 was a Chinese mission in which the Xuande emperor granted Le Loi, founder of Vietnam's Later Le dynasty, a provisional governing title.

Ming Sen Shiue

Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped teacher Mary Stauffer and her daughter in Minnesota in 1980, killed 6-year-old Jason Wilkman, drew landmark sentencing rulings on body concealment, and was civilly committed in 2011.

Sep 21, 2026

Ming T. Tsuang

Ming T. Tsuang, also known as Ming Tsuang, was a Taiwanese-American psychiatrist and psychiatric geneticist whose family, twin, and adoption studies established schizophrenia as partly genetic.

Ming the Merciless

Ming the Merciless, Emperor Ming of Mongo, is the arch-villain of Alex Raymond's 1934 Flash Gordon comic strip, modeled on Fu Manchu, played by Charles Middleton in the 1936-1940 serials and Max von Sydow in 1980.

Ming Tsai

Ming Tsai (born 1964) is an American chef known for East-West cuisine, Emmy-winning host of Food Network's East Meets West and PBS's Simply Ming, James Beard winner, founder of MingsBings.

Ming typefaces

Ming typefaces (Minchōtai 明朝体, Songti, Mingti) are the serif style of East Asian typography: thin horizontals, thick verticals, triangular uroko serifs, born of Ming woodblock printing and standardized by William Gamble's 1860s Shanghai electrotype.

Ming Withdrawal from Jiaozhi

The Ming Withdrawal from Jiaozhi (棄交趾) was the Ming dynasty's 1427 abandonment of Jiaozhi, the province it had held in northern Vietnam since 1407, recognizing Lê Lợi.

Ming withdrawal from Vietnam

The Ming withdrawal from Vietnam was the evacuation of Ming occupation forces from Dai Viet, completed on 3 January 1428 under the Dong Quan oath sworn with Le Loi.