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The Order of Places - 9789004288386

Un libro in lingua di Yongtao Du edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2015

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This volume examines the relationship between people and place in the mobile empire of Ming-Qing China from 1550 to 1850, focusing on how merchants (huishang) from the prefecture of Huizhou inhabited multiple places in their social lives, including their place of origin and places where they traveled, stayed temporarily, and permanently settled for business. It illustrates their evolving socio-spatial interactions during the era and how they impacted the spatial order of the empire. It describes the literati construction of Huizhou's image, the kinds of trade the merchants engaged in, and the geographical reach of their activities; the new geographical consciousness in the local encounter, the merchants' use of Huizhou's image as the “model Confucian place” in handling local politics in the host place and the differences between their understanding of locality and the home-based literati, and their participation in public projects; the changing meanings of the word xiangyi from local men's virtue in the Song era to a sojourner's moral imperative during the late Ming and Qing eras and how the state-sanctioned idea of commitment to home locality helped cultivate public participation beyond the locality; how new lineages in host places extended lineage practices to maintain connections with kin back home; the emergence of multi-place household registration; and their route books and how they portrayed the spatial order of the empire. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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