The order of places : : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China / / by Yongtao Du.
There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during th...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia, Volume 119 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
Volume 119. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 The Identity of Huizhou and the Reach of Its Merchants
- 2 Sojourning in Translocal Perspective: Local Encounters and Place-Based Identity
- 3 “The Public” for Sojourners: Xiangyi and the Translocal Network of Public Participation
- 4 Translocal Lineage and the Romance of Homeland Attachment
- 5 The Emergence of Multi-Place Household Registration: Translocality, the State, and Local Communities
- 6 Routes and Places: Spatial Order in Merchant Geographies
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.