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Global Chinese histories, 250-1650 |
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Global Chinese histories, 250-1650.
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction: The Emergence of the City into Writing -- The City at the Center of the World -- Finding Oneself in the City -- Losing the Way in the City -- Conclusion: The City Remergent -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings and busy harbors. Their purpose in writing the city was ideological. On the written page, they tried to establish a distinction that eluded them in the avenues and to discern an immanent pattern in the movement of people, goods, and money. By the end of the eleventh century, however, they recognized that they had failed in their efforts. They had lost the Way in the city. Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 reveals the central place of urban life in the history of the eleventh century. Important developments in literary innovation and monetary policy, in canonical exegesis and civil engineering, in financial reform and public health, converge in this book as they converged in the city. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (TOME, viewed March 3, 2023). |
| Language |
English. |
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City and town life -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
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China -- Intellectual life -- 960-1644.
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Chine -- Histoire -- 960-1279 (Dynastie des Song)
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Chine -- Vie intellectuelle -- 221 av. J.-C.-960.
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Chine -- Vie intellectuelle -- 960-1644.
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Asian history.
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Urban & municipal planning.
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HISTORY / Asia / China.
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City and town life
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Intellectual life
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Song Dynasty (China)
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
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| Chronological Term |
To 1644
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| Indexed Term |
Song Dynasty, early modern history, urban history, urban literature, economic thought |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Amsterdam University Press, publisher.
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| Cover Title |
Urban life and intellectual crisis in middle-period China, 800-1100 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: De Pee, Christian. Urban life and intellectual crisis in middle-period China, 800-1100. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022] 9463721665 (OCoLC)1320809125 |
| ISBN |
9048554330 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048554331 (electronic bk.) |
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9789463721660 (hardcover) |
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9463721665 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9789048554331 doi |
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https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721660 |
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AU@ 000072883325 |
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AU@ 000075485484 |
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