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Building culture in early Qing Yangzhou / Tobie Meyer-Fong.

By: Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.Description: xv, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804744858 (alk. paper)
  • 9780804744850 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Building culture in early Qing Yangzhou.; Online version:: Building culture in early Qing Yangzhou.DDC classification:
  • 951/.136 21
LOC classification:
  • DS797.56.Y374 M49 2003
Contents:
Rebuilding Yangzhou -- Personality and Meaning: Red Bridge -- Anthologies, Monuments, and the Invented Past: The Tower of Literary Selection -- Re-Creation and Recreation: Pingshan Hall -- The Triumph of Spectacle: Tianning Temple.
Review: "This book explores processes of cultural change in a Chinese city in the aftermath of the Manchu conquest of China in 1644. The city of Yangzhou, located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi River, is best known as the site of a devastating human and physical destruction during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century.".Summary: "The book focuses on the previously overlooked period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence - a moment in which Yangzhou functioned as an important center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic. With rich detail and extensive use of literary sources, the author documents the complex social and cultural interactions through which the community reconstituted itself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.

Rebuilding Yangzhou -- Personality and Meaning: Red Bridge -- Anthologies, Monuments, and the Invented Past: The Tower of Literary Selection -- Re-Creation and Recreation: Pingshan Hall -- The Triumph of Spectacle: Tianning Temple.

"This book explores processes of cultural change in a Chinese city in the aftermath of the Manchu conquest of China in 1644. The city of Yangzhou, located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi River, is best known as the site of a devastating human and physical destruction during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century.".

"The book focuses on the previously overlooked period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence - a moment in which Yangzhou functioned as an important center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic. With rich detail and extensive use of literary sources, the author documents the complex social and cultural interactions through which the community reconstituted itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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