Urban life and intellectual crisis in middle-period China, 800-1100 CE /
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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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Global Chinese histories, 250-1650.
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