Sentence examples for the early ming from inspiring English sources

The Nanjing city wall was built during the early Ming dynasty.

In the early Ming, the Chinese often took the offensive, pushing Mongol settlements away from the frontier.

In the early Ming years, venal tax captains seem to have been able to amass fortunes by exploiting the peasantry.

The North China Plain had been neglected since early Song times, and its rehabilitation became a high-priority project of the early Ming emperors.

The snake was added later, and, by the early Ming dynasty (1368), the yin and yang principles had been added to harmonize the whole.

A gold ingot on view is stamped with the words, "Purchased from the Western ocean and other places".Visitors enter the show through a huge rectangular arch, a symbol of the monumentality that characterises the early Ming period.

From a collector's standpoint, the early M cars are a mixed bag.

Although Darwin had first worked out many of his views on human evolution in the early "M" and "N" Notebooks of 1838 40, his conclusions were kept quietly in the background while the debates over his general theory were taking place and Darwin's own views on human evolution remained unclear, with only one vague sentence on the issue in the Origin itself.

An ideal window for exploring an interesting phase-specific sub-network is the early M phase, which is the onset of intense regulatory activity involved in mitosis.

Such sea raiders, a problem in Yuan times and from the earliest Ming years, had been suppressed during the reign of the Yongle emperor, when Japan's Ashikaga shogunate offered nominal submission to China in exchange for generous trading privileges.

At local and regional levels, the traditional modes and personnel of government were perpetuated in ad hoc fashion in the earliest Ming years, but, as the new empire became consolidated and stabilized, highly refined control structures were imposed that in theory and probably also in reality eventually subjugated all Chinese to the throne to an unprecedented and totalitarian degree.