A01=Mingming Wang
anthropological analysis of Chinese cities
Author_Mingming Wang
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Central Kingdom
china
Chinese religious practices
Chun Ji
City God
City God Temple
dynasties
Early Qing
Earth God Temple
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Han Qi
historical anthropology
imperial
jacques
Jinjiang County
late
Late Imperial
Late Imperial China
Licentious Cults
local governance history
Maritime Silk Road
Maritime Silk Route
Memorial Halls
Ming Code
prefecture
Qian Mu
quanzhou
Quanzhou Prefecture
ritual studies
Root Temples
temple networks
Territorial Cults
Territorial Temples
Tianhou Temple
urban social structure
Wanli Reign
Western Buddha
yuan
Yuan Dynasties
Zhen De Xiu
zhu
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- ISBN 9781598744057
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th century that declined to a peripheral regional center by the end of the 19th century. But the historical trajectory understates the complex set of interrelationships between local structures and imperial agendas that played out over the course of centuries and dynasties. Using urban structure, documentary analysis, and archaeological artifacts, Wang shows how the study of Quangzhou represents a Chinese template for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models propounded by such theorists as Sahlins, Wolf, and Elias.
Mingming Wang is Professor of Anthropology at Peking University. He is also director of the National Center for Anthropological and Ethnological Inquiries located at Central Minzu University in Beijing and chief editor of Chinese Review of Anthropology. He has a Ph.D. from University of London and is author of many articles and books on Chinese anthropology, history, and sociology in both Chinese and English, including Social Anthropology and Sinology (1997, in Chinese), Grassroots Charisma (2001, in English, co-authored with Stephan Feuchtwang), Beyond Rural China (2003, In Chinese), and The West as Other (2007, in Chinese). He also writes political comments and travelogues.
