| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 453 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 236 |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 236.
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| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Foundations -- Introduction -- A Name and a Place -- From Ming to Qing -- City of Merchants -- Yangzhou's Ten Days -- The Loyalist City -- City and Hinterland -- Managing the Salt -- Controlling the Waters -- Shaping the City -- Hui City, Yang City -- City of Women -- The Huizhou Ascendancy -- Native Place in an Immigrant City -- Postscript -- Rather Like a Dream -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Character List -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Summary |
This is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era and of the meanings that accrued to Yangzhou |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-427) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Urban & Regional.
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Steden.
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Yangzhou (Chine) -- Chine.
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Geschichte 1550-1850.
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| SUBJECT |
Yangzhou Shi (China) -- History
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| Subject |
China -- Yangzhou Shi
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Yangzhou
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684174003 |
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1684174007 |
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0674013921 |
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9780674013926 |
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