Dressing for power: Rite, costume, and state authority in Ming Dynasty China

Abstract

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, assumed the throne, he and his Confucian assistants imposed a system of clothing regulation on the court and society in order to create a hierarchical power structure. As

Keywords

Ming Dynasty, rite, costume, the state and society, dress transgression, commercialization, conspicuous consumption, gentry-merchants