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Senses of the City : Perceptions of Hangzhou and Southern Song China, 1127-1279 /

The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960-1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Powers, Martin Joseph, 1949- (Editor), De Pee, Christian (Editor), Lin, Shuen-fu, 1943- (Editor), Lam, Joseph Sui Ching (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Floating sleeves, willow waists, and dreams of spring: entertainment and its enemies in Song history and historiography / Beverly Bossler
  • 2. Eavesdropping on Zhang Xiaoxiang's musical world in early Southern Song China / Joseph S.C. Lam
  • 3. Picturing time in Song painting and poetry / Martin Powers
  • 4. Consciousness of adversity and the spirit of innovation: Jiang Kui's "Poems on past travels" and the urban culture of Hangzhou in the Southern Song / Zhang Hongsheng (translated by Gang Liu)
  • 5. The pains of pleasure: the lanterns of Kaifeng / Stephen H. West
  • 6. Crime, violence, and ghosts in the Lin'an stories in Yijian zhi / Ronald Egan
  • 7. Nature's capital: the city as garden in The splendid scenery of the capital (Ducheng jisheng, 1235) / Christian de Pee
  • 8. How does an objective correlative objectify? West Lake as the site for patriotic sentiment in Southern Song lyrics / Xinda Lian
  • 9. A city of substance: regional custom and the political landscape of Shaoxing in a Southern Song rhapsody / Benjamin Ridgway.