A socio-cultural history of sites in Ming Hangzhou

This dissertation takes a fresh approach to the study of place for parsing Ming society. Through a close analysis of the construction and representation of five famous places in the former imperial capital of Hangzhou – a pair of official shrines, a Buddhist monastery, the city god temple, and West...

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Main Author: Cheung, Desmond H. H.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37020