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Michael Knight, Senior Curator at the Asian Art Museum, discusses the changing of Nanjing to Beijing as official capital, and the power struggle involved.

A groundbreaking exhibition, Power and Glory was the first exhibition to focus on the full range of Ming dynasty (1368-1644) court arts. More than 200 treasures were on view, including gold and jade, paintings and porcelains, from China’s greatest museums, many never before seen outside of China. The works illustrated how this ancient dynasty surpassed the technology of its time to become a global leader in maritime power, mass production and artistic accomplishment.

Organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Palace Museum, the Nanjing Municipal Museum and the Shanghai Museum.

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00:00:03 The first emperor established Nanjing as the capital. He wasn't fully satisfied with Nanjing as the capital and the fact the heir-apparent, his eldest son, died while inspecting other possible sites

00:00:14 for the main capital. The next emperor, the Jianwen emperor, had a relatively brief term and his uncle, who became the Yongle emperor, was actually the king in Beijing,

00:00:24 so it was called Beiping, "Foreign Peace" at that time,

00:00:28 and that was his home turf and when he usurped the throne and overthrew the Jianwen emperor, then he began to move the capital to Beijing

00:00:37 which was his center of power. So, it was a power struggle, it was usurping the throne and then the trick was, for the Yongle emperor, was again to legitimize his rule,

00:00:47 so he built a capital of grander proportions and greater imperial structures than the capital in Nanjing.