City of Virtues

Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Throughout Nanjing’s history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with “royal qi,” making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of visionaries, drawing on past glories of the city, projected their ideologies onto Nanjing as they constructed buildings, performed rituals, and reworked the literary heritage of the city. More than an urban history of Nanjing from the late 18th century until 1911 — encompassing the Opium War, the Taiping occupation of the city, the rebuilding of the city by Zeng Guofan, and attempts to establish it as the capital of the Republic of China — this study shows how utopian visions of the cosmos shaped Nanjing’s path through the turbulent 19th century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-03-15
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCity of Virtues
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295741741

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AcknowledgmentsReign Dates of the Ming and Qing DynastiesIntroduction: An Age of Utopian Visions1. The Qianlong Emperor’s Tours of the Imperial City, 1751-842. Literati Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century3. Wang Shiduo’s Flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-644. Zeng Guofan’s Construction of a Ritual Center, 1864-725. Chen Zuolin Reassembles the Poetic City, 1872-1912Conclusion: Elements of UtopiaAbbreviations Used in the NotesNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex