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Transmission of Ming Memorials

Transmission of Ming Memorials TRANSMISSION OF MING MEMORIALS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TRANSMISSION NETWORK, 1368-1627* BY SILAS WU Within the Ming administrative apparatus, memorials and edicts functioned as the chief documentary media that facilitated the communication between the emperor and his bureaucracy. In a sense, the gigantic apparatus was set into motion only by the frequent issuing of imperial edicts. As a general rule, however, edicts pertaining to the actual (non-ceremonial) conduct of govern- ment affairs were based mostly on proposals presented in the form of memorials either from the provinces or from the capital; the emperor seldom made decisions solely on his own initiative 1). While research into the whole problem of decision-making practice in the Ming times is obviously beyond the scope of a journal article 2), this paper attempts to describe two very basic aspects of the problem: one dealing with the transmission of Ming memorials and the other with the developmental history of the transmission network. *) This paper was originally delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies at San Francisco on April 2, 1965. I am indebted to Professors William T. de Bary and Fang Chao-ying, both of Columbia University, for their http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Transmission of Ming Memorials

Wu, Silas
T'oung Pao , Volume 54 (4): 275 – Jan 1, 1968
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© 1968 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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10.1163/156853268X00123
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TRANSMISSION OF MING MEMORIALS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TRANSMISSION NETWORK, 1368-1627* BY SILAS WU Within the Ming administrative apparatus, memorials and edicts functioned as the chief documentary media that facilitated the communication between the emperor and his bureaucracy. In a sense, the gigantic apparatus was set into motion only by the frequent issuing of imperial edicts. As a general rule, however, edicts pertaining to the actual (non-ceremonial) conduct of govern- ment affairs were based mostly on proposals presented in the form of memorials either from the provinces or from the capital; the emperor seldom made decisions solely on his own initiative 1). While research into the whole problem of decision-making practice in the Ming times is obviously beyond the scope of a journal article 2), this paper attempts to describe two very basic aspects of the problem: one dealing with the transmission of Ming memorials and the other with the developmental history of the transmission network. *) This paper was originally delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies at San Francisco on April 2, 1965. I am indebted to Professors William T. de Bary and Fang Chao-ying, both of Columbia University, for their

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