Suzhou
Subtitle: where the goods of all the provinces converge
By: Michael Marmé
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Economic conditions; Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Social conditions; Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History; China -- Economic conditions; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-352) and index
Table of contents: title: Heaven in a very small space : Suzhou and its hinterland in the Ming; title: "A great deal of extravagance and a modicum of frugality" : Suzhou to 1367; title: A conquered province : Suzhou under Hongwu; title: Co-option and near collapse : Suzhou, 1398-1430; title: Reform, 1430-1484 : Suzhou from Zhou Chen to Wang Shu; title: "Like another place" : economy and society in fifteenth-century Suzhou; title: "Those occupying places above the common people" : Suzhou's elite and the rise of Wu School culture; title: "Neglecting the roots, pursuing the branches" : Suzhou, 1506-1550; title: Epilogue : "actually full of want and distress"? : Suzhou from the Wokou crisis to the fall of the Ming