Localities at the Center: Native Place, Space, and Power in Late Imperial Beijing

by R Belsky

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019563
• ISBN13: 9780674019560
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"