I haven't seen those things in the Ming Dynasty. I read Fifteen Years of Wanli. This is a very famous book, which will certainly help you.
In college, I also like reading history books, mainly Twenty-four History and History as a Mirror. After graduation, I read historical records and the annals of the Three Kingdoms. I don't advocate reading books like The Three Kingdoms and Those Things in the Ming Dynasty. History is rigorous and needs no individuality. Too many personalities are tedious and expensive, so it is better to experience them yourself. Of course, there are many university libraries.
If you really want to start reading from that far away, you should read Zi Tong Zhi Jian first, but it is usually in classical Chinese, which seems to be very slow. It seems that no one has translated Zi Tong Zhi Jian into vernacular.
There are also Zuozhuan, Chunqiu, Hanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms, all of which are dynastic histories and written in great detail.
The better reading is "Five Thousand Years in China". I have read the vernacular version, but it is not very detailed. Almost all of them are familiar to everyone, almost all of them are in history textbooks.
If you really want to know history carefully, which classical Chinese works do you want to read?
Those historical novels are just novels, not completely true, but based on history.
My humble opinion, I hope it will help you.
First, regardless of the general history monograph, we recommend the following monographs on the dynastic history of the Ming Dynasty:
Ming History (2 volumes), by Tang Gang and Nan Bing (Shanghai People's Publishing House)
New Ming History, edited by Fu Yiling, Yang Guozhen and Chen Zhiping (People's Publishing House); Now the new edition has been renamed "History of China"
History of Late Ming Dynasty (2 volumes) Fan Shuzhi (Fudan University Press)
Second, there are the following kinds of materials and works about the history of Nanming:
History of the Southern Ming Dynasty (14) Qian Haiyue (Zhonghua Book Company)
A Brief History of Nanming by xie guozhen (Shanghainese), this book is not newly printed.
History of the Southern Ming Dynasty: 1644- 1662 (USA) Struve (Shanghai Bookstore)
Gu Cheng, History of Nan Ming (China Youth Publishing House)
Third, about the historical materials of the early Qing Dynasty, let's talk about related works first:
The most famous is Meng Sen's Lecture Notes on the Founding History of Manchuria.
Earlier monographs include Zhou Yuanlian's Research on the History of the Founding of the Qing Dynasty (Liaoning People's Publishing House 198 1 Edition) and the History of the Rise of the Qing Dynasty (Jilin Literature and History Publishing House 1986 Edition).
Recently, I saw a book "History before Qing Dynasty", but I haven't read it.
Fourthly, regarding the historical materials of ancient books in Ming Dynasty, several important introductions are as follows:
1, Shi Minglu is the most important source of historical materials in Ming Dynasty. The Institute of History and Linguistics of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan Province Province is compiled according to the manuscript, and there are 133 volumes of * * words, 29 volumes of collating notes, 2 1 appendix and 183 volumes of * * words. After collating, this set of books is still a photocopy. You can't buy it on the market either. Recently, the online bookstore published a set of "Shi Minglu Codex" with a price tag of over 10,000 yuan.
2. One of the twenty-four histories of Ming History is the official history book of Ming Dynasty compiled by Qing Dynasty, with a total of twenty-eight volumes. Common and easy to read.
3. Guo Que, a six-volume version of Duanju by Zhonghua Book Company, is a biographical historical book of the Ming Dynasty, which was never published or edited by the Qing court, so many historical materials about the relationship between the early Manchu and the Ming Dynasty were preserved;
4. Chronicle of Ming History, which reflects the history of Ming Dynasty, was written before Ming History, based on the school of Zhonghua Book Company. Due to the small number of albums (4 volumes), the historical materials are of high value and are the easiest to read.
5, "Tong Mingjian", chronological official history, there are textual research differences. Yuelu Bookstore proofreads the simplified Chinese version, with only 3 volumes, which is easy to read. A volume of ancient books in Shanghai is a photocopy.
6. Ming Hui Dian is an official book. If you need to study the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty, this book is a must. But it hasn't been sorted out since the founding of the people's Republic of China.
7. The Tale of Southern Xinjiang, Notes on Xiao Tian's Chronicle and Biography of Xiao Tian are the most detailed historical materials in the Southern Ming Dynasty. The edition of Zhonghua Book Company was published earlier and there was no reprint, so it was not easy to get it.
8. Guo Chao Jing was compiled during the Chongzhen period. The works on the history of dynasties (from Taizu to Mu Zong) written by the Ming Dynasty were banned in the Qing Dynasty, including many political, economic and military materials. At present, there are photocopies of bibliographic literature publishing houses on the market.
9. Historical materials collected before and after Yizhou, as well as privately compiled historical books, are one of the historical sources of Ming history.