Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

In 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 th...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022
Series:Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
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