The present paper,rethinking diplomatic activities in the early Hongwu reign(1368-1398),in which the founding sovereign of Ming did his best to portray Ming as the peace incarnate and the overthrown Yuan as something militaristic,suggests that,driven by the consciousness of competition,Ming treated Yuan as an imagined enemy that presented itself through absence and in doing so Ming furthered its own legitimacy.
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