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

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).

• 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

Honourable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) at the AAS 2024 Book Awards "This is a challenging and significant book that should have a lasting impact on middle period scholarship."- Hugh Clark, Journal of Chinese History, Cambridge University Press (2023)