Youyoufangxiang: Leisure Consumption and Spatial Changes in Jiangnan Cities During the Ming and Qing Dynasties
by Wu Renshu
About This Novel
This book is the latest research by Mr. Wu Renshu, a Taiwanese scholar, on the leisure consumption and social life of Jiangnan urban residents from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the mid-Qing Dynasty. Taking consumption as the starting point and Jiangnan cities as a case, this paper explores how leisure consumption activities in cities during the Ming and Qing Dynasties changed the spatial structure of the city, and then analyzes the social relations and power entanglements reflected behind it. How has leisure consumption changed urban space? How can stores transform their spatial configuration to meet consumer demand? How to expand and differentiate leisure space? Why do private leisure spaces become public? What are the differences between men and women in consumption space? ... The author answers many questions one by one in the book, and concludes that consumption is an important feature of urban character. At the same time, the attraction of leisure consumption is used to explain the reasons why the gentry gradually became urbanized in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and illustrates the possibility of demoralization and depoliticization of the views of leisure consumption by Jiangnan officials and gentry in the eighteenth century. Through this book, you can also get a glimpse of the leisure life of Jiangnan citizens during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and appreciate the prosperous scene of Jiangnan cities.
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