Lesser elite in crisis: family strategies of divination (yinyang) school instructors in the yuan–ming transition

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• What: The focus of this article is a microhistory of the Zhu family of Suzhou, whose tombs were discovered in 2010 during the course of a construction project. Similarly, this article shows that the apparent continuity of the local divination school in the Ming entailed many significant changes in the position of the divination instructor, and it was made possible not by state policy alone, but also by the active participation of local experts.
• Who: JRAS and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany have published the research: Lesser . . .
  

   

  

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