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Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China
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Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means to be 'local' during the Southern Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in Ji'an prefecture (Jiangxi). It argues that 'belonging locally' was important to Ji'an literati throughout this period. How they achieved that, however, changed significantly. Southern Song and Yuan literati wrote about religious sites from within their local communities, but their early Ming counterparts wrote about local temples from their posts at the capital, seeking to transform local sites from a distance. By the late Ming, temples had been superseded by other sites of local activism, including community compacts, lineage prefaces, and community covenants.
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“As in other parts of China, the establishment of Ming rule in Ji'an led to a sharp increase in rebuilding local institutions (Schneewind 2006; Gerritsen 2007).”
From The Tale of Lady Tan: Negotiating Place between Central and Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China (2008) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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“Ji'an had once been their home, but had become significant only as the bond they shared away from home (Dardess 1996; Gerritsen 2007).”
From The Tale of Lady Tan: Negotiating Place between Central and Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China (2008) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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“One of their routine duties was to write inscriptions on behalf of these institutions (Gerritsen 2007: 65-66).”
From Originating in Emptiness, Present Everywhere: Representations of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist Bells in their Inscriptions (2020) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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“As Gerritsen (2007: 54) has explained, the Buddhist temple was one of a number of public spaces in which individuals might display their wealth (in the form of donations) or literary talent (in the form of inscriptions).”
From Originating in Emptiness, Present Everywhere: Representations of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist Bells in their Inscriptions (2020) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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“Meanwhile, the inscriptions allowed the temples to impress visitors with the names of prominent supporters (Gerritsen 2007: 16).”
From Originating in Emptiness, Present Everywhere: Representations of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist Bells in their Inscriptions (2020) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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“From the perspective of the temples, commissioning inscriptions was an important means to establish or reinforce ties with influential officials, while the inscription itself could add luster to an institution if the author was famous and highly respected (Gerritsen 2007: 65).”
From Originating in Emptiness, Present Everywhere: Representations of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist Bells in their Inscriptions (2020) · cites this paper as Gerritsen 2007
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gerritsen, A.
- Corresponding author
- Gerritsen, Anne
- ORCID
- Gerritsen, Anne
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2007-03-26
- OpenAlex
- W1523129860
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 13 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.45
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- University of Warwick (cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Historical and Literary Analyses
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Keywords
- local belonging, Southern Song, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, local gazetteers, religious sites, Jiangxi Province, local activism
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