Liu Jin 26/304/7786-7792
“The biography of Liu Jin (Liu Chin),” translated and annotated, with student exercises, by Howard Goodman of Multilingual Design, Seattle, WA. Originally in Frederick W. Mote and Howard L. Goodman, A Research Manual for Ming History, pp. 79-123. Research Manual Series, ed. Ta-tuan Chen and Frederick W. Mote. Published by Princeton University, Chinese Linguistics Project, 1983. Permission given for posting here by Dr. Chih-ping Chou, Director of the Chinese Linguistics Project, May 21, 2009.
Wade-Giles romanization is used. The text is presented in a series of PDFs, listed here according to the page numbers of the Research Manual. The portion of the Mingshi covered is 26/304/7786-7792.
Liu Jin 79-86
Liu Jin 87-94
Lin Jin 95-102
Liu Jin 103-110
Liu Jin 111-120
Liu Jin 121-123
Zheng He 26/304/7766-7769
Biography of eunuch general and explorer Zheng He (1371-1433). Translated by Edward Dreyer along with other primary sources given as appendices to his biographical study entitled Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433, which was published (Longman, 2006) in the Library of World Biography Series edited by Peter N. Stearns. We reproduce it here by gracious permission of the publisher.
