Speaking of Yangzhou
Subtitle: A Chinese City, 1550-1850 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674013926
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; History: World; History - General History; China; Asia - China; History / China; History; Yangzhou Shi (China)
Description: "The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era, exploring the paradoxes evident in conflicting meanings accruing to Yangzhou over time. She argues that a city famed as a social melting pot actually featured pronounced social divisions along native-place and occupational lines. These divisions were already evident in the early seventeenth century and were sustained until the early nineteenth, when the salt monopoly was in decline, the immigrant merchant community shrinking, and the city as a whole beginning a long, slow retreat into relative obscurity."--BOOK JACKET.