Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou 1st Edition by Tobie Meyer Fong ISBN 0804744858 9780804744850

Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou 1st Edition by Tobie Meyer-Fong – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0804744858, 9780804744850

Full download Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0804744858

ISBN 13: 9780804744850 

Author: Tobie Meyer-Fong

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.

Table of contents:

1. Rebuilding Yangzhou

2. Personality and Meaning: Red Bridge

3. Anthologies, Monuments, and the Invented Past: The Tower of Literary Selection

4. Re-Creation and Recreation: Pingshan Hall

5. The Triumph of Spectacle: Tianning Temple

People also search for:

building culture in early qing yangzhou
    
qing empire dates
    
what is the qing dynasty best known for
    
chinese culture buildings
    
qing china architecture

Tags: Tobie Meyer Fong, Building Culture, Early Qing, Yangzhou