This is a review article on Ming Studies during the first sixty years of Republican China with an emphasis on social, economic, and political history. Topics discussed are: studies on Ming History sources; Zhu Yuan-zhang and the founding of the Ming dynasty; Zhu Di and foreign relations of the Ming dynasty; the social, economic and political history of the latter half of the Ming dynasty; party struggles; peasant uprisings; the rise of Manchuria; and the fall of the Ming dynasty.