City of Virtues : Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions / Chuck Wooldridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wooldridge, Chuck.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

China program books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopian socialism--China--History.

Utopian socialism.

Nanjing Shi (China)--History--18th century.

Nanjing Shi (China).

Nanjing Shi (China)--History--19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout Nanjing's history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with "royal qi, " making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of visionaries, drawing on past glories of the city, projected their ideologies onto Nanjing as they constructed buildings, performed rituals, and reworked the literary heritage of the city. More than an urban history of Nanjing from the late 18th century until 1911 - encompassing the Opium War, the Taiping occupation of the city, the rebuilding of the city by Zeng Guofan, and attempts to establish it as the capital of the Republic of China - this study shows how utopian visions of the cosmos shaped Nanjing's path through the turbulent 19th century.

Contents:

Introduction: an age of utopian visions

The Qianlong emperor's tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84

Literati politics in the early nineteenth century

Wang Shiduo's flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64

Zeng Guofan's construction of a ritual center, 1864-72

Chen Zuolin reassembles the poetic city, 1872-1912

Conclusion: elements of utopia.

Notes:

"A China Program Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295805986

0295805986

OCLC:

910823889