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

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Front. Hist. China ›› 2007, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (2) : 181-212. DOI: 10.1007/s11462-007-0012-x

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

YUAN Zujie

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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

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YUAN Zujie. Dressing for power: Rite, costume, and state authority in Ming Dynasty China. Front. Hist. China, 2007, 2(2): 181‒212 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11462-007-0012-x