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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Skillfully demonstrates how different political movements altered the cityscape — both physically and semantically — to project their utopian visions. . . . A carefully crafted work."
-- Carl Kilcourse * China Quarterly *
"The publication of City of Virtues is doubly welcome: valuable on its own merits, the book contributes significantly to two vital bodies of historiography on modern China. . . . All interested in Qing and Republican history and urban studies will enjoy and profit from reading Wooldridge’s stimulating, smart book."
-- Peter J. Carroll * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *
"[A] thoughtful book linking urban history to the ritual and literary representation of space, while also contributing to scholarship on the Taiping civil war and nineteenth-century elites."
* Journal of Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Reign Dates of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Introduction: An Age of Utopian Visions
1. The Qianlong Emperor’s Tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84
2. Literati Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century
3. Wang Shiduo’s Flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64
4. Zeng Guofan’s Construction of a Ritual Center, 1864-72
5. Chen Zuolin Reassembles the Poetic City, 1872-1912
Conclusion: Elements of Utopia
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
