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

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

Harvard East Asian Monographs (Hardcover)

Richard Belsky

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nonfiction history
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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...

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