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Peking - Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (Hardcover)
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Peking - Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (Hardcover)
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The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is
the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the
city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates
Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five
centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint.
This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's
great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting
identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and
cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a
place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of
family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of
community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing
how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs,
markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability,
Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time,
illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities
generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban
history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative
inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between
human beings and gods, about community service and public
responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result
is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese
studies for years to come.
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