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The order of places : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China /

"There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered dur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Du, Yongtao, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Sinica Leidensia ; volume 119.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The identity of Huizhou and the reach of its merchants
  • Sojourning in translocal perspective : local encounters and place-based identity
  • "The public" for sojourners : Xiangyi and the translocal network of public participation
  • Translocal lineage and the romance of homeland attachment
  • The emergence of multi-place household registration : translocality, the state, and local communities
  • Routes and places : spatial order in merchant geographies.