This collaborative project depends for its growth on contributions from scholars.  If you have translated part of the Mingshi, whether a single biography or a chunk of treatise, or whatever it may be, please email me at sschneewind@ucsd.edu, attaching your contribution in some readable format, with the page numbers from the Mingshi according to the Zhonghua shuju edition, your name and institutional affiliation, the work in which you discuss the translation (I can update publication information any time), and what kind of licensing you prefer. 

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