Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou - Hardcover

Meyer-Fong, Tobie

 
9780804744850: Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804744858 ISBN 13: 9780804744850
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century.

The book focuses on the period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence―a moment in which Yangzhou was a center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic.

The book shows how Yangzhou's elite used physical sites as markers in the reconstruction of the city, and as vehicles consolidating power and prestige. Gradually, however, the gestures and sites of the postconquest elite were appropriated by the city's increasingly powerful salt merchants and incorporated into a court-oriented culture centered at Beijing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tobie Meyer-Fong is Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

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This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century.
The book focuses on the period between the conquest and the city’s commercial florescence—a moment in which Yangzhou was a center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic.
The book shows how Yangzhou’s elite used physical sites as markers in the reconstruction of the city, and as vehicles consolidating power and prestige. Gradually, however, the gestures and sites of the postconquest elite were appropriated by the city’s increasingly powerful salt merchants and incorporated into a court-oriented culture centered at Beijing.

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This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century.
The book focuses on the period between the conquest and the city s commercial florescence a moment in which Yangzhou was a center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic.
The book shows how Yangzhou s elite used physical sites as markers in the reconstruction of the city, and as vehicles consolidating power and prestige. Gradually, however, the gestures and sites of the postconquest elite were appropriated by the city s increasingly powerful salt merchants and incorporated into a court-oriented culture centered at Beijing.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804744858
ISBN 13 
9780804744850
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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