Ji'an Literati and the local in Song-Yuan-Ming China / by Anne Gerritsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerritsen, Anne.

Series:

China studies ; 13.

China studies ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

China.

China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.

China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter One. Introduction / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Two. Sacred Landscape In Southern Song And Yuan Jizhou / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Three. Literati And Community / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Four. Imagining Local Belonging In Southern Song And Yuan Jizhou / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Five. Other Ways Of Being Local In Southern Song And Yuan Jizhou / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Six. Local Temples In Early Ming: The Central View / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Seven. Late Ming Ji’An: A New Sacred Landscape? / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Eight. Temples And Literati Communities In Late Ming Ji’An / A.T. Gerritsen

Chapter Nine. Other Ways Of Being Local In Ming Ji’An / A.T. Gerritsen

Appendix / A.T. Gerritsen

Bibliography / A.T. Gerritsen

Index / A.T. Gerritsen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611917272

9781281917270

1281917273

9789047419532

9047419537

OCLC:

646789679

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004156036.i-259 DOI