Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, And Power in Late Imperial Beijing - Couverture rigide

Belsky, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674019563 ISBN 13 : 9780674019560

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 2006

Synopsis

A visitor to Beijing in 1900, Chinese or foreign, would have been struck by the great number of native-place lodges serving the needs of scholars and officials from the provinces. What were these native-place lodges? How did they develop over time? How did they fit into and shape Beijing's urban ecology? How did they further native-place ties?

In answering these questions, the author considers how native-place ties functioned as channels of communication between China's provinces and the political center; how sojourners to the capital used native-place ties to create solidarity within their communities of fellow provincials and within the class of scholar-officials as a whole; how the state co-opted these ties as a means of maintaining order within the city and controlling the imperial bureaucracy; how native-place ties transformed the urban landscape and social structure of the city; and how these functions were refashioned in the decades of political innovation that closed the Qing period. Native-place lodges are often cited as an example of the particularistic ties that characterized traditional China and worked against the emergence of a modern state based on loyalty to the nation. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native-place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Belsky is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674019563
• ISBN 13: 9780674019560
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 334
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