City of virtues
Subtitle: Nanjing in an age of utopian visions
By: Chuck Wooldridge
Series: China program book; A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; China Program book; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780295741741; 9780295994697
Subjects: Utopian socialism; History
Other titles: Nanjing in an age of utopian visions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an age of utopian visions; title: The Qianlong emperor's tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84; title: Literati politics in the early nineteenth century; title: Wang Shiduo's flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64; title: Zeng Guofan's construction of a ritual center, 1864-72; title: Chen Zuolin reassembles the poetic city, 1872-1912; title: Conclusion: elements of utopia.