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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2016.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.