Perpetual
Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle
by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
USA and UK: University of Washington Press,
Hdb ISBN 0295981091, Pbk ISBN 0295981245; distributed in Canada
by UBC Press
A colorful historical biography of one of the
most revered emperors of China and a vivid portrait of life
during the Ming dynasty. Scholar Tsai's lively writing will
infect even non-scholarly audiences with his own evident enthusiasm
for his subject.
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the review byJames D. Rosenthal
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