This bound, photocopied, bilingual volume records the proceedings of the international conference held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 2006. Supported by the Geiss Hsu Foundation, the conference examined the personality and career of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty. It features 31 thematically-related articles, eleven of which were later published by the Chinese University Press as Ming Taizu’s Ideas on Statecraft and Their Implementation.