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Peking : Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 by Susan Naquin (2001, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780520219915
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Peking : Temples and City Life, 1400-1900
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Asia / General, Asia / China
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2.4 in
- Item Weight
- 49.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 854 Pages
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The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520219910
ISBN-13
9780520219915
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1888313
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
854 Pages
Publication Name
Peking : Temples and City Life, 1400-1900
Language
English
Subject
Asia / General, Asia / China
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.4 in
Item Weight
49.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-032294
Illustrated
Yes
Lc Classification Number
99-32294
Table of Content
List of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface PART ONE: PEKING AND ITS TEMPLES 1. Introducing Peking 2. Gods and Clerics 3. Communities and Public Space PART TWO: MING PEKING 4. A New Capital 5. Imperial Peking 6. Urban Communities 7. Late Ming Associations 8. Seeing the Sights PART THREE: QING PEKING 9. 1644: Partition and Transition 10. The Imperial World 11. New Divisions 12. Reintegration 13. The Sights of Qing Peking 14. Religious Associations 15. Temples and Private Purposes 16. Temples and Public Purposes Epilogue: In Search of Old Peking Appendix 1: Data on Temples Appendix 2: Data on Inscriptions Appendix 3: Donations to Ming and Qing Temples Bibliography Glossary-Index
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