Suzhou : where the goods of all the provinces converge / Michael Marmé.
| Author/creator | Marme, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005. |
| Description | xii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Heaven in a very small space : Suzhou and its hinterland in the Ming -- "A great deal of extravagance and a modicum of frugality" : Suzhou to 1367 -- A conquered province : Suzhou under Hongwu -- Co-option and near collapse : Suzhou, 1398-1430 -- Reform, 1430-1484 : Suzhou from Zhou Chen to Wang Shu -- "Like another place" : economy and society in fifteenth-century Suzhou -- "Those occupying places above the common people" : Suzhou's elite and the rise of Wu School culture -- "Neglecting the roots, pursuing the branches" : Suzhou, 1506-1550 -- Epilogue : "actually full of want and distress"? : Suzhou from the Wokou crisis to the fall of the Ming. |
| General note | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-352) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004013214 |
| ISBN | 0804731128 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 080474517X (cloth : alk. paper) |