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Literati and the Construction of the "Local" : = The Quanzhou Community of Learning in Late Imperial China.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literati and the Construction of the "Local" :/
Reminder of title:	The Quanzhou Community of Learning in Late Imperial China.
Author:	Fu, Courtney R.
Description:	1 online resource (260 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355330311

Literati and the Construction of the "Local" : = The Quanzhou Community of Learning in Late Imperial China.
Fu, Courtney R.

Literati and the Construction of the "Local" :The Quanzhou Community of Learning in Late Imperial China. - 1 online resource (260 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This is a socio-cultural study of the locality of Quanzhou, Fujian, from the mid to late Ming period. Through the prism of its intellectual community of Cheng-Zhu Confucian scholars, this dissertation provides insights into the relationship between the literati elite and the locale which they helped to construct and they represented. It argues that the Quanzhou scholars had a dual-identity: as scholar-officials and as scholar-gentries. As the former, they attempted to associate the local and themselves with the imperial state through elevating the cultural status of Quanzhou. Accordingly, Zhu Xi's intellectual legacy in the area and the later Cheng-Zhu Confucian scholars were transformed into cultural and symbolic capitals with which the Quanzhou scholars propelled their hometown into a center of learning of national repute. These intangible capitals found concrete manifestations in architectural monuments that became sites of collective memory, which in turn and eventually helped to forge a unique local identity shared by literati and commoners alike. In their capacity as local gentries, their intellectual allegiance to Cheng-Zhu orthodox learning did not prevent them from changing with the times. While their steadfast intellectual faith found expression in their antagonism against Buddhism and the religious syncretic trend popular in Fujian, in an effort to safeguard the welfare and livelihood, they went so far as to defy the imperial ban on maritime trade and actively endorsed the legitimacy and necessity of trade, embracing and promoting a mercantile ethos. In broad terms, this study of the Quanzhou Confucian scholars engages with the historiography of local history in late imperial China while reflecting on question of the scope and nature of the intellectual and social changes that might be construed as a sort of early modernity.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355330311Subjects--Topical Terms:

810327
Asian history.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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