1st Edition
Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100
By Christian de Pee
Copyright 2022
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Preface, Introduction. The Emergence of the City into Writing, Chapter 1. The City at the Center of the World: Chang'an as Center and as Ruin in the Ninth Century, Chapter 2. Finding Oneself in the City: Crowds, Commodities, and Subjectivity in the Eleventh Century, Chapter 3. Losing the Way in the City: Infrastructure, Money, and Intellectual Crisis in the Eleventh Century, Conclusion. The City Remergent, Bibliography, Primary sources, Secondary sources.
Biography
Christian de Pee in Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries and a co-editor of Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song (1127-1179).
