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Localities at the Center

Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

By Richard Belsky

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| Hardcover | 9780674019560

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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 uContinue

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.

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    It is amazing that the Beijing official map in 1909 has focused on the locations of native-place lodges (各省會館). Departed from the linear modernization or urbanization model that took locality as traditional, the author found some benefits of the social institutions based on the native-place identity ... (continue)

    It is amazing that the Beijing official map in 1909 has focused on the locations of native-place lodges (各省會館). Departed from the linear modernization or urbanization model that took locality as traditional, the author found some benefits of the social institutions based on the native-place identity, which is also shaped by the social interactions in the city.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 334 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0674019563
  • ISBN-13: 9780674019560
  • Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
  • Pub date: Mar 31, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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