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

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ID19915741
AuthorsAnne Gerritsen (0000-0002-3796-4810, corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages258
Publication date2007-03-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueJi'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004156036.i-259
OpenAlexW1523129860
Open LibraryOL22755893M
ISBN9789004156036
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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 By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants

Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Capital city · China · Chinese community · Economic geography · Geography · Local community · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · 1368-1644 · ming dynasty

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