Across
- 3. The Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351-1767) ruled approximately the area that is the modern nation of…
- 6. First word in the English title of a famous Ming novel (first print 1592) about a monk and a monkey travelling to India
- 7. The Qing produced a famous multilingual glossary in Chinese, Manchu, Uyghur, Tibetan, and…
- 8. Family name of the ruling Ming family
- 9. Five East India Companies were founded in the 17th century by the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Danish, and the…
- 12. Widespread European fascination with things Chinese in the 17-18th centuries
- 15. Capital of the early Ming dynasty
- 17. The Mongols encouraged cultivation of it; the Ming produced it so systematically that some scholars speak of early capitalism
- 18. If Manchus, Mongols, etc., adopt Chinese customs and language, the process is called…
- 21. Capital of the middle and late Ming dynasty
- 24. Family name of a famous Italian Jesuit who lived in late Ming China and had impressive Chinese language skills
- 25. Admiral Zheng He was born 1371 in Yunnan and the religion of his father had been…
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- 1. Chinese product that became a smash hit in 18th-century Britain
- 2. Family name of the man who led the first British mission to Qing China in 1793 and may or may not have kowtowed before the Chinese emperor
- 4. First word in the English title of a famous Qing novel of 1791 which is regarded a masterpiece of Chinese and world literature
- 5. Guiding political philosophy in imperial China
- 8. Family name of the scholar who wrote ‘The Social Life of Opium in China’ (2005)
- 10. Manchu emperor and Chinese poet with the greatest output (quantitatively)
- 11. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and the first Ming emperor, Hongwu (1328-1398), both came from a family of…
- 13. Mongol dynasty in China, 1271-1368
- 14. City-state on the west Indian coast that was one of the most important ports for Zheng He
- 16. Manchu dynasty in China, 1644-1912
- 19. The Majapahit Empire (1293 - circa 1500) ruled various islands that form the modern nation of…
- 20. There was a specific kind of Buddhism at the court of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Which country did it come from?
- 22. Very tall animal from Africa that Zheng He’s ships brought to China
- 23. The Wanli emperor (reigned 1572-1620) liked to smoke it