Zhang Jing and the Great Victory of Wangjiangjing: A 1492 Son of Fuzhou
Here’s the story. On the Gengchen day of the 10th month of the 34th year of Jiajing, November 12, 1555, a general who had just delivered the greatest anti-Wokou victory of the southeast coast was executed at Beijing’s Western Market. When I first opened Volume 55 of the “Wanli Fuzhou Prefecture Gazetteer” and saw the name “Zhang Jing” in the “Biographies, Meritorious Achievements” section, I expected a routine loyal-official narrative. ...