02951nam 22005175 450 991058656660332120230623183907.090-485-5433-010.1515/9789048554331(CKB)5600000000494081(DE-B1597)632887(DE-B1597)9789048554331(NjHacI)995600000000494081(MiAaPQ)EBC30406529(Au-PeEL)EBL30406529(OCoLC)1350313229(EXLCZ)99560000000049408120221004h20222022 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUrban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 /Christian de Pee1st ed.Amsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (290 p.)Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650 ;3Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Preface --Introduction: The Emergence of the City into Writing --1 The City at the Center of the World --2 Finding Oneself in the City --3 Losing the Way in the City --Conclusion: The City Remergent --Bibliography --IndexIn the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings and busy harbors. Their purpose in writing the city was ideological. On the written page, they tried to establish a distinction that eluded them in the avenues and to discern an immanent pattern in the movement of people, goods, and money. By the end of the eleventh century, however, they recognized that they had failed in their efforts. They had lost the Way in the city. Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 reveals the central place of urban life in the history of the eleventh century. Important developments in literary innovation and monetary policy, in canonical exegesis and civil engineering, in financial reform and public health, converge in this book as they converged in the city.Global Chinese histories, 250-1650 ;v.3City and town lifeChinaHistoryTo 1500HISTORY / Asia / ChinabisacshChinaIntellectual life960-1644Song Dynasty, early modern history, urban history, urban literature, economic thought.City and town lifeHistoryHISTORY / Asia / China.307.760951de Pee Christianauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1194425DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910586566603321Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-11002950968UNINA