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After the prosperous age : state and elites in early nineteenth-century Suzhou
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"By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and local pride, from the eighteenth to the early ninetee...
"By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and local pride, from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, this illuminates the significance of this period in the reformulation of state-elite relations marked by elite public activism and the dissolution of centralized cultural order"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Seunghyun Han
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2016
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781684170852, 9780674737174, 1684170850, 0674737172
- OCLC
- on1132226235, ocn914296326, ocn999606473
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Harvard University, 2005).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
Subjects
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Political activity -- China -- Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng)
- Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Intellectual life.
- Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 18th century.
- Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 19th century.
- Provincial governments -- China -- History -- 18th century.
- Provincial governments -- China -- History -- 19th century.