Turning Towards the Ming for a bit

The 'Massive Martial' Emperor, from a set of playing cards I myself remember seeing at gift shops in China in 2009

Fairbank, John King. China : A New History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

I was surprised to find that Fairbank's great textbook, China: A New History (here are my inspectional reading notes), devotes fewer than 15 pages to the entire Ming dynasty. Like most accounts, this one includes reference to the powerful personality of the first Ming emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, aka the Hongwu ('Massive Martial') Emperor. Fairbank informs also that he was 'ugly to look at.' (p. 128)