Speaking of Yangzhou

Speaking of Yangzhou
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 487
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ISBN-10 : 9781684174003
ISBN-13 : 1684174007
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Book Synopsis Speaking of Yangzhou by : Antonia Finnane

Download or read book Speaking of Yangzhou written by Antonia Finnane and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-twentieth-century essayist Zhu Ziqing once wrote that he had only to mention the name of his hometown of Yangzhou to someone in Beijing and the person would respond, "A fine place! A fine place!" Yangzhou was indeed one of the great cities of late imperial China, and its name carries rich historical and cultural resonances. Even today Yangzhou continues to evoke images of artists, men of letters, great merchant families, scenic waterways, an urban environment of considerable grace and charm, and a history imbued with color and romance. This book is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. Yangzhou invites attention because its place in China's cultural iconography tells us not only of one city's vicissitudes and fortunes but also of changes in the geography of the Chinese imagination. The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era and of the meanings that accrued to Yangzhou over time. She argues that the actual construction of the city--its academies of learning, its philanthropic institutions, its gardens, its teahouses, and its brothels--underpinned the construction of a certain idea of Yangzhou.


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