Customs and Historical Views: China and the World in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The articles included in this book are divided into five parts. The first part is related to the "Era Division Theory"; the second part selects daily "customs"; the third part focuses on the dramatic changes in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, discussing issues of national consciousness and order; the fourth part is a legal history essay related to ownership and trial; the fifth part is a methodological article centered on the study of Chinese history in Japan. These articles may seem scattered, but from the perspective of the author's academic life, they are like branches and leaves growing on a tree trunk, with the same root and concern flowing through them: to understand the social phenomena of the Ming and Qing dynasties based on the thinking of people at that time, and to place the changes in these social phenomena from a broad perspective and grasp them from a comparative historical perspective.