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Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge. New edition
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| 著者・編者 | Marme, Michael, |
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| 出版社 | (Stanford University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2005 |
| ページ数 | 384 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A03-60357＞ |
解説
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.