Peking - Temples and City Life, 1400-1900

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List of contents

List of Tables and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

PART ONE: PEKING AND ITS TEMPLES
1. Introducing Peking
2. Gods and Clerics
3. Communities and Public Space

PART TWO: MING PEKING
4. A New Capital
5. Imperial Peking
6. Urban Communities
7. Late Ming Associations
8. Seeing the Sights

PART THREE: QING PEKING
9. 1644: Partition and Transition
10. The Imperial World
11. New Divisions
12. Reintegration
13. The Sights of Qing Peking
14. Religious Associations
15. Temples and Private Purposes
16. Temples and Public Purposes

Epilogue: In Search of Old Peking
Appendix 1: Data on Temples
Appendix 2: Data on Inscriptions
Appendix 3: Donations to Ming and Qing Temples
Bibliography
Glossary-Index

About the author

Susan Naquin is Professor of History at Princeton University. Her earlier books include Millenarian Rebellion in China (1976) and Shantung Rebellion (1981); as coauthor, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (1987); and, as coeditor, Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (California, 1992).

Summary

This text examines the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using Peking's temples as a starting point, the book excavates the city's varied public arenas, its transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Naquin, Naquin Susan
• Assisted by: Susan Naquin (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2001
• EAN: 9780520219915
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21991-5
• No. of pages: 850
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Other non-Christian religions, Other religions and spiritual beliefs