David B. Chan
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Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Hayward. Author of The Usurpation of the Prince of Yen, 1398β1402.
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Hongwu was the Chinese emperor (reigned 1368β98) who founded the Ming dynasty that ruled China for nearly 300 years. During his reign, the Hongwu emperor instituted military, administrative, and educational reforms that centred power in the emperor. The future Hongwu emperor was born in 1328 as Zhuβ¦
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