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Urbanization in Early and Medieval China

Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE–220 CE), Tang (618–907), and Northern Song (960–1126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allow the reader to trace the dramatic changes that occurred as the city experienced enormous political and social upheavals over nine centuries. Each translation is accompanied by extensive annotation and a detailed discussion of the historical background of the text, authorship, and publication history. The book also traces the development of the gazetteer genre, the history of urban planning in China, and what we know about the early development of Suzhou from other texts and archaeological research. Urbanization in Early and Medieval China will be useful not only to scholars of Chinese history, but to scholars studying architecture and urban planning as well.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 34 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieUrbanization in Early and Medieval China
Antal sidor400
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295994604
ÖversättareOlivia Milburn

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"Urbanization in Early and Medieval China has done a significant service to the field by making available a much-needed new set of Suzhou-focused texts for historians, literary scholars, and cultural geographers of early and medieval China. For those of us who teach seminars on Chinese cities past of present, this book will provide ample productive reading material with which to provoke discussion, along with texts with which to launch research projects—at any level."