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Author Du, Yongtao, 1970-

Title The order of places : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China / by Yongtao Du
Published Leiden : Brill, 2015

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Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; volume 119
Sinica Leidensia ; volume 119.
Contents The identity of Huizhou and the reach of its merchants -- Sojourning in translocal perspective : local encounters and place-based identity -- "The public" for sojourners : Xiangyi and the translocal network of public participation -- Translocal lineage and the romance of homeland attachment -- The emergence of multi-place household registration : translocality, the state, and local communities -- Routes and places : spatial order in merchant geographies
Summary "There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as geographical mobility increased. At the center of the story are the mobile merchants from south China's Huizhou Prefecture, then the most prominent merchant group in China. The story presents the dynamics of geography in the world's most enduring empire on the eve of its entry into modern history, as the author explores the changing relationships between people and the place they called 'home, ' between local place and the life-world the Chinese called 'all-under-Heaven, ' and between local places"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human geography -- China -- History
Residential mobility -- China -- History
Merchants -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- Social conditions
Home -- Social aspects -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- History
Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Commerce
Geography
Human geography
Merchants -- Social conditions
Qing Dynasty (China)
Residential mobility
Social conditions
SUBJECT Huizhou Diqu (China) -- Social conditions
Huizhou Diqu (China) -- Commerce
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024072
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024078
China -- Geography
Subject China
China -- Huizhou Diqu
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004288409
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