Notes
1 David Robinson, “Why Military Institutions Matter for Ming History,” Journal of Chinese History 1, no. 2 (2017): 299.
2 See, for instance, Michael Szonyi, The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017); Yingcong Dai, The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009); Diana Lary, China's Civil War: A Social History 1945–1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
3 See, for instance, Cheng Gu, The Hidden Land: The Garrison System and the Ming Dynasty, trans. Ping Ning (London: Routledge, 2020), 1–39, 61–92.