Crossword Puzzle Late Imperial China (Weeks 1-7)

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Across
  1. 5. First word in the English title of a famous Ming novel (first print 1592) about a monk and a monkey travelling to India
  2. 6. Manchu emperor and Chinese poet with the greatest output (quantitatively)
  3. 7. The Ayutthaya Kingdom (1351-1767) ruled approximately the area that is the modern nation of…
  4. 9. If Manchus, Mongols, etc., adopt Chinese customs and language, the process is called…
  5. 11. The Mongols encouraged cultivation of it; the Ming produced it so systematically that some scholars speak of early capitalism
  6. 13. Widespread European fascination with things Chinese in the 17-18th centuries
  7. 17. Manchu dynasty in China, 1644-1912
  8. 18. Family name of the man who led the first British mission to Qing China in 1793
  9. 20. Family name of the ruling Ming family
  10. 22. Chinese product that became a smash hit in 18th-century Britain
  11. 23. Very tall animal from Africa that Zheng He’s ships brought to China
  12. 25. Five East India Companies were founded in the 17th century by the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Danish, and the…
Down
  1. 1. The Wanli emperor (reigned 1572-1620) liked to smoke it
  2. 2. Admiral Zheng He was born 1371 in Yunnan and the religion of his father had been…
  3. 3. Guiding political philosophy in imperial China
  4. 4. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and the first Ming emperor, Hongwu (1328-1398), both came from a family of…
  5. 8. The Qing produced a famous multilingual glossary in Chinese, Manchu, Uyghur, Tibetan, and…
  6. 10. Capital of the early Ming dynasty
  7. 12. Capital of the middle and late Ming dynasty
  8. 13. City-state on the west Indian coast that was one of the most important ports for Zheng He
  9. 14. The Majapahit Empire (1293 - circa 1500) ruled various islands that form the modern nation of…
  10. 15. Mongol dynasty in China, 1279-1368
  11. 16. Family name of the scholar who wrote ‘The Social Life of Opium in China’ (2005)
  12. 19. There was a specific kind of Buddhism at the court of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Which country did it come from?
  13. 21. First word in the English title of a famous Qing novel of 1791 which is regarded a masterpiece of Chinese and world literature
  14. 24. Family name of a famous Italian Jesuit with impressive Chinese language skills