Change And Continuity In Chinese Local History

Author : Harriet Zurndorfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004482838

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Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History by Harriet Zurndorfer Pdf

This book examines one of the most important problems concerning Chinese civilization - how was the pattern of stability and continuity of Chinese society and economy achieved and maintained from approximately 800 to 1800. It uses the results of detailed, specialized research about the Chinese landholding system, marketing patterns, the role of the extended family therein, taxation and non-elite social groups in one specific locale to answer questions that historians of any civilization ask about the structure and functioning of a given society. The author has investigated the development of the Hui-chou community over a 1,000 year period by concentrating on six grand questions, each answered by one chapter. The answers to these questions, as given in this work, show that 'stability' is a dynamic concept. 'Continuity' in Hui- chou is the result of the 'changes' in population growth, commercialization, and class differentiation acting in concert over the long term.

Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004156036

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AJi'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China by Anne Gerritsen Pdf

Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means to be 'local' during the Southern Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in Ji'an prefecture (Jiangxi). It argues that 'belonging locally' was important to Ji'an literati throughout this period. How they achieved that, however, changed significantly. Southern Song and Yuan literati wrote about religious sites from within their local communities, but their early Ming counterparts wrote about local temples from their posts at the capital, seeking to transform local sites from a distance. By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0231123841

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Contemporary Chinese Societies by Anonim Pdf

For students, businesspeople, or anyone planning to travel to China, here is a multimedia presentation of the diversity of modern China in the context of its traditional roots. As both an integrated curriculum and "virtual" introduction, this new CD-ROM combines imagery, music, and the spoken language with text and narrative that are grounded in the latest scholarship. Minimum System Requirements: PC: Windows95 Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM, 16-bit color display, 2X CD-ROM Macintosh: System 7.5 68040 processor, 32 MB RAM, 16-bit color display, 2X CD-ROM

Author : R. Bin Wong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501736049

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China Transformed by R. Bin Wong Pdf

The assumption still made in much social science research that Europe provides a universal model of development is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to build complementary perspectives, such as a Sinocentric one, to evaluate current understandings of European developments. A genuinely comparative perspective, he argues, will free China from wrong expectations and will allow those working on European problems to recognize the distinct character of Western development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968849

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Lineage Society on the Southeastern Coast of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger V. Des Forges
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804740445

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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History by Roger V. Des Forges Pdf

The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural centrality resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese people to retain control over social and economic developments. The study focuses on two and a half million people in three prefectures of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the "central plain”--a common synecdoche for China. The author argues that this population may have been more representative of the Chinese people at large than were the residents of more prosperous regions. Many diverse individuals in northeast Henan invoked historical models to deal with the present and shape the future. Though they differed in the lessons they drew, they shared the view that the Han dynasty was particularly relevant to their own time. Han and Ming politics were integral parts of a pattern of Chinese historical development that has lasted to the present.

Author : Paul Jakov Smith,Richard von Glahn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173815

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The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History by Paul Jakov Smith,Richard von Glahn Pdf

This volume seeks to study the connections between two well-studied epochs in Chinese history: the mid-imperial era of the Tang and Song (ca. 800-1270) and the late imperial era of the late Ming and Qing (1550-1900). Both eras are seen as periods of explosive change, particularly in economic activity, characterized by the emergence of new forms of social organization and a dramatic expansion in knowledge and culture. The task of establishing links between these two periods has been impeded by a lack of knowledge of the intervening Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). This historiographical "black hole" has artificially interrupted the narrative of Chinese history and bifurcated it into two distinct epochs. This book aims to restore continuity to that historical narrative by filling the gap between mid-imperial and late imperial China. The contributors argue that the Song-Yuan-Ming transition (early twelfth through the late fifteenth century) constitutes a distinct historical period of transition and not one of interruption and devolution. They trace this transition by investigating such subjects as contemporary impressions of the period, the role of the Mongols in intellectual life, the economy of Jiangnan, urban growth, neo-Confucianism and local society, commercial publishing, comic drama, and medical learning.

Author : Qitao Guo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520385214

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Huizhou by Qitao Guo Pdf

Introduction -- Cheng Minzheng and the rise of Huizhou consciousness -- A land of prominent lineages -- Wang Daokun and the promotion of mercantile lineage culture -- "A Confucian heartland of women" -- The local religious order -- Conclusion.

Author : John W. Dardess
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520323032

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A Ming Society by John W. Dardess Pdf

John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of a large number of native sons and their relationship to Ming imperial politics. Using previously unexplored primary sources, Dardess details the rise and development of T'ai-ho village kinship, family lineage, landscape, agriculture, and economy. He follows its literati to positions of prominence in imperial government. This concentration on the history of one county over almost three centuries gives rise to an unusually sound and immediate understanding of how Ming society functioned and changed over time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Author : Liu Xiaoyi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000961553

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Clothing, Food, and Travel by Liu Xiaoyi Pdf

This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally, The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng. The novel weaves into its narrative, through the characters' personalities and the events it illustrates, important details of Ming material life. Through the literary snapshot of the Ming material culture as reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, this work investigates the practices and customs of clothing, food, and travel, three of the "four major concerns of the people's livelihoods," known as yishizhuxing in Chinese. While frequenting economic dimensions and probing the impact that Ming politics had on the ethos and social economy of the period, it sheds significant light on folk customs, legal and religious practices, and the status of women, among other issues. This work aims to enrich the current Western scholarship, done primarily by Timothy Brook, Craig Clunas, and Glen Dudbridge, on Ming material culture. The book will be of great value to students and scholars of East Asian Studies, Chinese literature, and those interested in the history of material culture in general.

Author : Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924413

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Becoming Chinese by Wen-hsin Yeh Pdf

This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy. Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.

Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300133530

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The Retreat of the Elephants by Mark Elvin Pdf

The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.

Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett,John King Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : 0521243335

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The Cambridge History of China by Denis Crispin Twitchett,John King Fairbank Pdf

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.

Author : Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0674002490

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Chinese History by Endymion Porter Wilkinson Pdf

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

Author : Xin Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521642892

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Social Transformation in Modern China by Xin Zhang Pdf

In this book, Xin Zhang sheds light on the sources of China's modernization.