Ji'an Literati and the local in Song-Yuan-Ming China
By: Anne Gerritsen.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789004156036
Description: "Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it meant to be 'local' during the Southern Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in Ji'an prefecture (Jiangxi). It argues that 'belonging locally' was important to Ji'an literati throughout this period. How they achieved that, however, changed significantly, Southern Song and Yuan literati wrote about religious sites from within their local communities, but their early Ming counterparts wrote about local temples from their posts at the capital, seeking to transform local sites from a distance. By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including schools and academics, lineage prefaces, and community covenants."--Jacket.