Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Christian Pee

book: Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Christian Pee

Volume 3 in the series Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554331

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Pee Christian :

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).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Preface Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction: The Emergence of the City into Writing Open Access Download PDF	15
1 The City at the Center of the World Chang’an as Center and as Ruin in the Ninth Century Open Access Download PDF	35
2 Finding Oneself in the City Crowds, Commodities, and Subjectivity in the Eleventh Century Open Access Download PDF	77
3 Losing the Way in the City Infrastructure, Money, and Intellectual Crisis in the Eleventh Century Open Access Download PDF	161
Conclusion: The City Remergent The Middle-Period City in History Open Access Download PDF	243
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	257
Index Open Access Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 290
Keywords: Song Dynasty; early modern history; urban history; urban literature; economic thought

eBook

Published: July 25, 2022
ISBN: 9789048554331