{"product_id":"city-of-virtues-9780295994697","title":"City of Virtues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Skillfully demonstrates how different political movements altered the cityscape — both physically and semantically — to project their utopian visions. . . . A carefully crafted work.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Carl Kilcourse * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter J. Carroll * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Reign Dates of the Ming and Qing Dynasties\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: An Age of Utopian Visions\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Qianlong Emperor’s Tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84\u003cbr\u003e 2. Literati Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e 3. Wang Shiduo’s Flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64\u003cbr\u003e 4. Zeng Guofan’s Construction of a Ritual Center, 1864-72\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chen Zuolin Reassembles the Poetic City, 1872-1912\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Elements of Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations Used in the Notes\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524702019927,"sku":"9780295994697","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295994697.jpg?v=1731857808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-of-virtues-9780295994697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}