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Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge Hardback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Michael Marme
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- Title Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge
- Author Michael Marme
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 369
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date December 14, 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780804731126
- ISBN 9780804731126
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
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From the jacket flap
Before Shanghai, there was Suzhou: a city of canals and commerce, gardens and scholars, the largest noncapital city on earth between 1400 and 1850. This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming dynasty defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets that fostered high-quality local specialization. Population growth and economic expansion followed, as did the acceptance of conspicuous consumption, critical distance from the imperial state, and the dissolution of traditional barriers between scholar-officials and merchants.
These developments shaped Suzhou's artistic and literary creativity, and made possible the continued success of its sons in the imperial examinations. Thus political success, cultural creativity, and economic centrality, the author argues, enabled Suzhou not just to influence the region, but to reshape the empire.
These developments shaped Suzhou's artistic and literary creativity, and made possible the continued success of its sons in the imperial examinations. Thus political success, cultural creativity, and economic centrality, the author argues, enabled Suzhou not just to influence the region, but to reshape the empire.