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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Du, Yongtao, 1970-
Imprint:	Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource
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:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481878

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ISBN:	9789004288409 9004288406 9789004288386 9004288384
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Du, Yongtao, 1970- Order of places 9789004288386
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004288409

Table of Contents:

The identity of Huizhou and the reach of its merchants
Sojourning in translocal perspective : local encounters and place-based identity
"The public" for sojourners : Xiangyi and the translocal network of public participation
Translocal lineage and the romance of homeland attachment
The emergence of multi-place household registration : translocality, the state, and local communities
Routes and places : spatial order in merchant geographies.