John Dardess

John Wolfe Dardess (January 17, 1937 – March 31, 2020) was an American historian of China, especially the Ming dynasty. He wrote nine books on the topic, including A Ming Society.^[1] He learned Chinese in the American military, and was posted to Taiwan.^[2] Earning his PhD from Columbia University in 1968, he taught at the University of Kansas from 1966 to 2002, becoming director of the Center for East Asian Studies in 1995.^[3][4] One obituary summarised his principal legacy as consisting “not in any particular interpretation he offered, but in a voracious appetite for delving into the written sources, the courage to ask stimulating new questions, and the historical imagination to wonder about the common humanity that linked the authors he read and their communities with his own times."^[1] He drew notice for pointing to continuities in Chinese history and drawing parallels between contemporary and Ming politics.^[5]

John Dardess
Born	(1937-01-17)January 17, 1937 Chatham, New York
Died	March 31, 2020(2020-03-31) (aged 83) Kansas, United States
Alma mater	Georgetown University Columbia University (PhD 1968)
Scientific career
Fields	Chinese history
Institutions	University of Kansas
Military career
Service / branch	United States Army

Books

Dardess's books include:^[6]

• Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China (Columbia University Press, 1973)^[7]
• Confucianism and Autocracy: Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty (University of California Press, 1983)^[8]
• A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (University of California Press, 1996)^[9]
• Blood and History in China. The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627 (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002)^[10]
• Governing China, 150-1850 (Hackett Publishing Co., 2010)
• Ming China 1368–1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)^[11]
• A Political Life in Ming China: A Grand Secretary and His Times (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)^[12]
• Four Seasons: A Ming Emperor and His Grand Secretaries in Sixteenth-century China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)^[13]
• More Than the Great Wall: The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368–1644 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)^[14]

References

1. Dunnell, Ruth W. "John Wolfe Dardess: January 17, 1937 – March 31, 2020." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 50.1 (2021): ix–xiv.
2. Ming Studies "Interviews with Scholars of the Ming: John Dardess" Ming Studies 2017.75 (2017): 40–43.
3. Schneewind, Sarah. "Obituary for John Dardess." Ming Studies (2020): 4–14.
4. Lawrence Journal-World September 1, 1995 Center's Director Ready for New Challenges
5. Shin 2003.
6. Doll, Vickie Fu (July 2020), "Bibliography of works by John Wolfe Dardess", Ming Studies, 2020 (82): 15–22, doi:10.1080/0147037x.2020.1784605, S2CID 221749204
7. Reviews of Conquerors and Confucians:
   • Curwen, C. A. (1975), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 38 (3): 662–663, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00048448, JSTOR 613741, S2CID 154469146
   • Eberhard, Wolfram (October 1974), The American Historical Review, 79 (4): 1229–1230, doi:10.2307/1869682, JSTOR 1869682
   • Endicott-West, Elizabeth (January 1979), Ming Studies, 1979 (1): 37–40, doi:10.1179/014703779788765056
   • Goodrich, L. Carrington (June 1976), The American Political Science Review, 70 (2): 647–648, doi:10.2307/1959703, JSTOR 1959703, S2CID 148414725
   • Langlois, Jr., John D. (November 1974), The Journal of Asian Studies, 34 (1): 218–220, doi:10.2307/2052427, JSTOR 2052427, S2CID 157412449
   • Penrose, G. L. (1975), Mongolian Studies, 2: 154, JSTOR 43191739
   • Quale, G. Robina (November 1974), The Historian, 37 (1): 146, JSTOR 24443996
   • Rossabi, Morris (Winter 1974–1975), Pacific Affairs, 47 (4): 526–527, doi:10.2307/2755957, JSTOR 2755957
   • Taylor, Romeyn (January 1974), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 411: 187–188, doi:10.1177/000271627441100127, JSTOR 1041022, S2CID 145290686
8. Reviews of Confucianism and Autocracy:
   • Baker, Hugh D. R. (1985), The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 117 (1): 130, doi:10.1017/S0035869X00155492, JSTOR 25211825, S2CID 164132359
   • Dreyer, Edward L. (October 1984), The American Historical Review, 89 (4): 1134–1135, doi:10.2307/1866530, JSTOR 1866530
   • Farmer, Edward L. (Summer 1985), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (1): 180–181, doi:10.2307/204358, JSTOR 204358
   • Fisher, Tom (Spring 1985), Pacific Affairs, 58 (1): 126–127, doi:10.2307/2758022, JSTOR 2758022
   • Handlin, Joanna F. (May 1985), The Journal of Asian Studies, 44 (3): 583–585, doi:10.2307/2056279, JSTOR 2056279, S2CID 165434109
   • Mote, F. W. (June 1986), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 46 (1): 302–317, doi:10.2307/2719087, JSTOR 2719087
   • Rossabi, Morris (1984), Journal of Asian History, 18 (1): 98–99, JSTOR 41930539
   • Waltner, Ann (January 1984), Ming Studies, 1984 (1): 12–14, doi:10.1179/014703784788764439
   • Zurndorfer, Harriet T. (1988), T'oung Pao, Second Series, 74 (1/3): 144–147, JSTOR 4528408
9. Reviews of A Ming Society:
   • Brokaw, Cynthia (1997), Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie, Nouvelle Série, 15: 140–141, JSTOR 24577945
   • Brook, Timothy (November 1997), The Journal of Asian Studies, 56 (4): 1052–1053, doi:10.2307/2658304, JSTOR 2658304, S2CID 161448017
   • Chu, Hung-lam (Fall 1998), China Review International, 5 (2): 401–405, doi:10.1353/cri.1998.0033, JSTOR 23732356, S2CID 143986392
   • Dennerline, Jerry (October 1998), The American Historical Review, 103 (4): 1294–1295, doi:10.2307/2651301, JSTOR 2651301
   • Dunstan, Helen (1999), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 62 (3): 598–599, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00019029, JSTOR 3107624, S2CID 161692885
   • Farmer, Edward L. (Summer 1998), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 29 (1): 161–163, doi:10.1162/jinh.1998.29.1.161, JSTOR 206024, S2CID 144805965
   • Rossabi, Morris (1997), Journal of Asian History, 31 (2): 187–188, JSTOR 41933053
   • Taylor, Romeyn (July–September 1998), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118 (3): 433–435, doi:10.2307/606088, JSTOR 606088
   • Zurndorfer, Harriet T. (December 1998), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 58 (2): 630–637, doi:10.2307/2652680, JSTOR 2652680
   • Ming Studies, 1998 (1): 86–97, January 1998, doi:10.1179/014703798788763480
10. Reviews of Blood and History in China:
    • Des Forges, Roger V. (Spring 2002), China Review International, 9 (1): 84–91, JSTOR 23729538
    • Kerlouégan, Jérôme (2003), T'oung Pao, Second Series, 89 (1/3): 215–222, JSTOR 4528932
    • Lowry, Kathryn (February 2007), The Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (1): 221–223, doi:10.1017/S0021911807000186, JSTOR 20203119
    • Shin, Leo K. (Summer 2003), Pacific Affairs, 76 (2): 291–292, JSTOR 40024412
    • Struve, Lynn (October 2003), The American Historical Review, 108 (4): 1118–1119, doi:10.1086/ahr/108.4.1118
11. Reviews of Ming China 1368–1644:
    • Hoe, Charles Wong Kian (2012), Journal of Oriental Studies, 45 (1/2): 233–235, JSTOR 43498214
    • Koh, Khee Heong (2012), China Review International, 19 (1): 61–64, doi:10.1353/cri.2012.0000, JSTOR 23733392, S2CID 144033815
    • Lin, Hang (April 2015), The Medieval History Journal, 18 (1): 180–183, doi:10.1177/0971945814565735, S2CID 163615036
    • Miller, Harry (May 2012), The Journal of Asian Studies, 71 (2): 515–517, doi:10.1017/S0021911812000216, JSTOR 23263439, S2CID 162231925
    • Ptak, Roderich (2013), Journal of Asian History, 47 (1): 136–138, doi:10.13173/jasiahist.47.1.0136, JSTOR 10.13173/jasiahist.47.1.0136
12. Reviews of A Political Life in Ming China:
    • Lin, Hang (2014), Archiv Orientální, 82 (1): 197–198, doi:10.47979/aror.j.82.1.197-198, S2CID 255259573, ProQuest 1536912278
    • Smith, Joanna Handlin (December 2014), The American Historical Review, 119 (5): 1672–1673, doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1672, JSTOR 43698932
    • Swope, Kenneth M. (2014), China Review International, 21 (1): 27–30, doi:10.1353/cri.2016.0061, JSTOR 24859812, S2CID 151567278
    • Waltner, Ann (May 2015), The Journal of Asian Studies, 74 (2): 462–463, doi:10.1017/S0021911815000157, JSTOR 43553601
    • Wei, Yang (April 2014), American Journal of Chinese Studies, 21 (1): 71–72, JSTOR 44288442
13. Reviews of Four Seasons:
    • Lin, Hang (November 2018), Ming Qing Yanjiu, 22 (1): 113–115, doi:10.1163/24684791-12340023, S2CID 195527597
    • Throness, Aaron (September 2021), International Journal of Asian Studies, 20: 242–247, doi:10.1017/s1479591421000413, S2CID 239700595
    • Zhang, Ying (September 2018), Journal of Chinese History, 3 (1): 165–168, doi:10.1017/jch.2018.29, S2CID 165939347
    • Zhao, Jie (July 2017), Ming Studies, 2017 (76): 121–123, doi:10.1080/0147037x.2017.1366101, S2CID 166047659
14. Reviews of More Than the Great Wall:
    • Molnar, Aaron (July 2021), Ming Studies, 2021 (84): 65–68, doi:10.1080/0147037x.2021.1966209, S2CID 237433707
    • Noordam, Barend (October 2020), Journal of Chinese Military History, 9 (2): 209–211, doi:10.1163/22127453-12341357, S2CID 226334979 https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2020/239953/jouchimil_a2020v9n2p209.pdf {{citation}}: |url= missing title (help)
    • Throness, Aaron (April 2021), International Journal of Asian Studies, 19 (2): 333–337, doi:10.1017/s1479591421000097, S2CID 234826482