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Contents Tables, Maps, and Figures xiii Preface xv Part I?Foundations 1 Introduction 3 2 A Name and a Place 18 City and Empire?24/? City and Prefecture?27/? A Central Place??34 Part II?From Ming to Qing 3 City of Merchants 43 The Lianghuai Salt Monopoly and Ming Yangzhou?47/? The West Merchants?49/? The Huizhou Merchants?57/? A Huizhou Family in Late Ming Yangzhou?62 4 Yangzhou's Ten Days 69 The Manchus and the Fall of the Ming?70/? "Yangzhou shiri ji": The First Six Days?72? Alternative Histories 1: Zheng Yuanxun?78/? Alternative Histories 2: Zong Hao?84/? "Yangzhou shiri ji": The Last Four Days?88 5 The Loyalist City 90 Reconstruction and Rehabilitation?96/? Rewriting Yangzhou?101/? Transitions?110 Part III?City and Hinterland 6 Managing the Salt 117 Monarchs and Merchants?118/? Monopoly Merchants and Their Money?121/? Merchants and Salters?127/? Salt Officials?131/? Smugglers?135/? City, Salt, Infrastructure?139 7 Controlling the Waters 148 The Hydraulic Infrastructure?152/? Governing the Waters?155/? The Salt Administration and Hydraulic Management?164/? City and Hinterland?169 8 Shaping the City 172 Spatial Differentiation in the New City?176/? Yangzhou's Gardens and Extramural Expansion?188/? The Gardens and Urban Culture?199/? The Great Age of Tourism?204/? The City in Retreat?209 Part IV?Hui City, Yang City 9 City of Women 213 Women on View?215/? Consumers and Producers?222/? Yangzhou and Its "Others"?228 10 The Huizhou Ascendancy 236 The Huizhou Colony?238/? Native-Place Associations 240/ Philanthropic Activities?243/? City and Prefecture?250/? The Blurring of Social Boundaries??253/?Who Was Not at the Ma Brothers' Party??256/? Redefining Salt Merchants?261 11 Native Place in an Immigrant City 265 Merchants and Scholars?267/? The Literary Inquisition?270/? Genealogies of Scholarship?274/? The Social Origins of the Yangzhou School?276/? Native Place on the Agenda?283/? Home and the World?292? Postscript 12 Something Like a Dream 297 Salt, Waterways, and Regional Decline?300/?The Ruined City?308/?The View from Shanghai?312 Appendixes A Market Towns in Jiangbei, ca. 1733 319 B The Lianghuai Salt Administration, ca. 1768 321 C Natural Disasters in Gaoyou Department, 1645-85 324 D Selected Items of Water Control Expenditure by Lianghuai Salt Merchants 325 E Private Gardens Visited by the Qianlong Emperor 327 F Individualist Artists Associated with Yangzhou in the Eighteenth Century 328 G Scholars Associated with the "Yangzhou School" to 1850 329 Reference Matter Notes 331 Works Cited 391 Character List 429 Index 443
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Yangzhou Shi (China) History