City of Virtues : Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
City of Virtues
ISBN-10
029599469X
ISBN-13
9780295994697
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Imprint
University of Washington Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 1st, 2015
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.50 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Asian history
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Throughout Nanjing's history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with "royal qi," making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of visionaries, drawing on past glories of the city, projected their ideologies onto Nanjing as they constructed buildings, performed rituals, and reworked the literary heritage of the city. More than an urban history of Nanjing from the late 18th century until 1911 — encompassing the Opium War, the Taiping occupation of the city, the rebuilding of the city by Zeng Guofan, and attempts to establish it as the capital of the Republic of China — this study shows how utopian visions of the cosmos shaped Nanjing's path through the turbulent 19th century.
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