The City in Late Imperial China

by William Skinner

Thirteen papers comprise this final volume of a three-part series titled Studies in Chinese Society. The papers are divided into three sections that examine Chinese cities in the context of history, spacial structure, and urban social structure. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's ( //www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title.

Genres: China, History

820 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Josh Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whew, done! It is hard to overstate the impact of this 800 page brick of an edited volume on the field of Chinese history. In addition to the (EXTREMELY IN DEPTH) laying out of Skinner's theory on the physio-economic macroregions of China, there are quite a few very interesting essays, I particularly enjoyed the earlier chapters on the cosmology and morphology of Chinese capital cities, as well as Feuchtwang's chapter on the interaction of elite official religion and popular religion in Qing cities. The book, especially Skinner's chapters, can get very social-sciencey, quantitative, and wonky, and I honestly had no idea what some of the graphs Skinner drew were trying to say. Nevertheless, an excellent volume, plus, you get to read things by such epically named people like Donald DeGlopper, Tilemann Grimm, and Sybille van der Sprinkel.

[Akai]

I am really intrested in this part!