Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15603-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: China Studies

Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means 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 By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerritsen, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Gerritsen, Ph.D. (2001) in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Lecturer in the Department of History at Warwick University (England). She has published on local cults in Ji’an, and on women and gender in late-imperial China.