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ISBN 10: 0520219915
ISBN 13: 9780520219915
Author: Susan Naquin
The central character in Susan Naquin’s extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city’s temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking’s varied public arenas, the city’s transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint.
This study shows how modern Beijing’s glittering image as China’s great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Peking Temples and City Life 1400 1900 1st Table of contents:
List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
PART ONE: PEKING AND ITS TEMPLES
1. Introducing Peking
2. Gods and Clerics
3. Communities and Public Space
PART TWO: MING PEKING
4. A New Capital
5. Imperial Peking
6. Urban Communities
7. Late Ming Associations
8. Seeing the Sights
PART THREE: QING PEKING
9. 1644: Partition and Transition
10. The Imperial World
11. New Divisions
12. Reintegration
13. The Sights of Qing Peking
14. Religious Associations
15. Temples and Private Purposes
16. Temples and Public Purposes
Epilogue: In Search of Old Peking
Appendix 1: Data on Temples
Appendix 2: Data on Inscriptions
Appendix 3: Donations to Ming and Qing Temples
Bibliography
Glossary-Index
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