City of Virtues - Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions

Chuck Wooldridge is assistant professor of history at Lehman College, City University of New York, and codirector of the Modern China Seminar, Columbia University.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Reign Dates of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Introduction: An Age of Utopian Visions

1. The Qianlong Emperor's Tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84

2. Literati Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century

3. Wang Shiduo's Flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64

4. Zeng Guofan's Construction of a Ritual Center, 1864-72

5. Chen Zuolin Reassembles the Poetic City, 1872-1912

Conclusion: Elements of Utopia

Abbreviations Used in the Notes

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Chuck Wooldridge is assistant professor of history at Lehman College, City University of New York, and codirector of the Modern China Seminar, Columbia University.

Product details

• Authors: William Wooldridge
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780295741741
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74174-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: China Program Books (Hardcover; China Program Books (Hardcover; City of Virtues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous