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After the Prosperous Age : State and Elites in early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou /

"By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and local pride, from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, this illuminates the significance of this period in the reformulation of state-elite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Han, Seunghyun, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2016.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 101.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From State Activism to Elite Activism
  • The Ascendant Elite Activism in Local Public Works
  • "Civilians Donate and They Manage": Elite Activism in Hydraulic Works in Suzhou
  • Fighting Famine: The Rise of "Civilian-Led Famine Relief"
  • Cultural Manifestations of Elite Activism
  • The Shrine of Local Worthies and the Changing Patterns of the Enshrinement
  • Shrine, Images, and Power: The Worship of Former Worthies in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou
  • State Control of Local Gazetteers and Private Local Literature
  • Bandit or Hero? Memories of Zhang Shicheng in Late Imperial and Republican Suzhou.