Suzhou : where the goods of all the provinces converge / Michael Marmé.

Author/creator Marme, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteRevision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-352) and index.
LCCN 2004013214
ISBN0804731128 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080474517X (cloth : alk. paper)