The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Urban Life in China, 15th-20th centuries
Communities, Institutions, Representations
Collection : Études thématiques
Collection's number: 27
Editor: Gabbiani (Luca)
Edition: EFEO
Publication date: 2016
Status : Available
45,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855391472
ISSN : 1269-8067
Width : 18.5 cm
Height : 27.5 cm
Weight : 0,88 kg
Number of pages : 360
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion
Geography : China
Language : English
Place : Paris
Support : Papier
Abstract
China can boast of a long and time-honoured urban tradition, comparable to its Western counterpart. In an effort better to provide insights on the latest developments in the field of urban history in China, this volume gathers together twelve essays by renowned scholars of Chinese history. Each author offers an original perspective on city life in China and on its specificities, based on sources seldom previously tapped into to shed light on the urban phenomenon. The topics addressed in the volume include urban sociability, the role of religion in the economic life of cities, the representation and the visualization of urban space, the early rise of a city-centred consumer society, urban government in its institutional and legal dimensions, and the link between city, history and memory. In order to bridge the traditional divide between pre-modern and modern China, the essays gathered here span a period of five centuries, from the Ming dynasty to the early years of the People’s Republic. This “longue durée” standpoint provides an opportunity to observe changes and evolutions in time and to anchor them in the specific context of China’s multifaceted and intermittently tumultuous path towards modern times.
Table of contents
Contents
* Connecting Urban Histories East and West, Luca GABBIANI
* A Late Ming Sociology of Urban Space, Siyen FEI
* Advertising Forms and Urban Consumer Culture in Early Modern China, WU Jen-shu
* Gender, Memory, and Historical Judgment in Early Qing Yangzhou, Wai-yee LI
* Temple Fairs in Beijing’s Tibetan Buddhist Temples during the Qing Dynasty, LAI Hui-Min
* Death Penalty and Prison Life in Late Qing Beijing: Some Reflections on Comparative Historiography, Methods and Resources, Jérôme BOURGON
* A Comparison between two Places of Sociability in the Late Qing and Republican Periods: Opium Houses and Gambling Dens in Canton, Xavier PAULÈS
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Études thématiques
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