Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou

Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0804744858
ISBN-13 : 9780804744850
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Book Synopsis Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou by : Tobie Sarah Meyer-Fong

Download or read book Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou written by Tobie Sarah Meyer-Fong and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book focuses on the previously overlooked period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence - a moment in which Yangzhou functioned as an important center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic. With rich detail and extensive use of literary sources, the author documents the complex social and cultural interactions through which the community reconstituted itself."--Jacket.


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