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Localities at the Center
Richard Belsky
其他書名
Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing
出版BRILL, 2020-03-17
主題History / Asia / GeneralHistory / Middle East / GeneralArchitecture / Urban & Land Use PlanningHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Social HistorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Affairs & Administration
ISBN16841742529781684174256
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3gD8EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋" A visitor to Beijing in 1900, Chinese or foreign, would have been struck by the great number of native-place lodges serving the needs of scholars and officials from the provinces. What were these native-place lodges? How did they develop over time? How did they fit into and shape Beijing’s urban ecology? How did they further native-place ties? In answering these questions, the author considers how native-place ties functioned as channels of communication between China’s provinces and the political center; how sojourners to the capital used native-place ties to create solidarity within their communities of fellow provincials and within the class of scholar-officials as a whole; how the state co-opted these ties as a means of maintaining order within the city and controlling the imperial bureaucracy; how native-place ties transformed the urban landscape and social structure of the city; and how these functions were refashioned in the decades of political innovation that closed the Qing period. Native-place lodges are often cited as an example of the particularistic ties that characterized traditional China and worked against the emergence of a modern state based on loyalty to the nation. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native-place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century. "