City of virtues : Nanjing in an age of utopian visions /
Nanjing in an age of utopian visions
Chuck Wooldridge.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages).
- China program book .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: an age of utopian visions -- The Qianlong emperor's tours of the Imperial City, 1751-84 -- Literati politics in the early nineteenth century -- Wang Shiduo's flight from the New Jerusalem, 1853-64 -- Zeng Guofan's construction of a ritual center, 1864-72 -- Chen Zuolin reassembles the poetic city, 1872-1912 -- Conclusion: elements of utopia.