Urban life in China : 15th-20th centuries : communities, institutions, representations / editor, Luca Gabbiani.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Paris : École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2016.
  • copyright 2016
Description
359 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

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Notes
Proceedings of a conference held at the École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris, December 2008.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-333) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • A late Ming sociology of urban space / Siyen Fei
  • Buiding and visualizing cities : China, Europe, and the Islamic world, 1400-1800 / Lillian M. Li
  • Advertising forms and urban consumer culture in early modern China / Wu Jen-shu
  • Gastronomy and consumption in eighteenth-century China / Joanna Waley-Cohen
  • Gender, memory, and historical judgment in early Qing Yangzhou / Wai-yee Li
  • The notion of urban culture in the high Qing : itinerary and topics in Yangzhou huafang lu / Lucie Olivová
  • Temple fairs in Beijing's Tibetan Buddhist temples during the Qing dynasty / Lai Hui-Min
  • Temple worship and guilds in old Peking : a case study of Xisi's Zhenwu temple and its associations, 1779-1952 / Ju Xi
  • Death penalty and prison life in late Qing Beijing : some reflections on comparative historiography, methods and resources / Jérôme Bourgon
  • The "municipal turn" in Xinzhen China : revolution or continuity? : the evidence from Beijing / Luca Gabbiani
  • A comparison between two places of sociability in late Qing and Republican periods : opium houses and gambling dens in Canton / Xavier Paulès
  • The shops of Baochansi Street and their pubao : social and business interactions in Beijing's Xisi ward (1952-1954) / Christian Lamouroux.
Other title(s)
Urban life in China, fifteenth-twentieth centuries
ISBN
9782855391472 (pbk.) :
OCLC
951456211
RCP
H - S
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