Publication

2006 - Brill, Leiden

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDS

Description

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 By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including schools and academics, lineage prefaces, and community covenants."--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ji'an Literati and the local in Song-Yuan-Ming ChinaBrill2006-01-01

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