The order of places : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China /

The order of places : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China /

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Author / Creator:Du, Yongtao, 1970-
Imprint:Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Description:vi, 269 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563; volume 119
Sinica Leidensia ; volume 119.
Subject:
Human geography -- China -- History.
Residential mobility -- China -- History.
Merchants -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- Social conditions.
Home -- Social aspects -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- History.
Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- China -- Huizhou Diqu -- History.
Commerce.
Geography.
Human geography.
Merchants -- Social conditions.
Qing Dynasty (China)
Residential mobility.
Social conditions.
Huizhou Diqu (China) -- Social conditions.
Huizhou Diqu (China) -- Commerce.
China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
China -- Geography.
China.
China -- Huizhou Diqu.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10158902
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ISBN:9789004288386 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004288384 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004288409 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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 the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as geographical mobility increased. At the center of the story are the mobile merchants from south China's Huizhou Prefecture, then the most prominent merchant group in China. The story presents the dynamics of geography in the world's most enduring empire on the eve of its entry into modern history, as the author explores the changing relationships between people and the place they called 'home,' between local place and the life-world the Chinese called 'all-under-Heaven,' and between local places"--Provided by publisher.

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