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DESCRIPTION:East Asian Studies Speaker Series Talk\n	'Landscape and Power in
  Post-Imperial Chang'an'\n	Professor Xin Wen\, Princeton University\n	Thursd
 ay October 23\, 4:35 PM\n	680 Sherbrooke Room 1041\n	Co-sponsored by the Res
 earch Group on Global Pasts of the Yan Lin Centre and the Centre for Globa
 l Chinese Studies\n\nAbstract:\n	Chang’an\, the capital of the Tang (618–90
 7) dynasty\, had a walled area of 84 square kilometers and a population of
  one million\, making it the largest city in the medieval world. After the
  fall of the Tang\, a new Chang’an emerged within the old city. This small
 er Chang’an\, about 6 percent in landmass compared to the old city\, conti
 nued to function as a regional center to this day. This lecture explores t
 he landscape of this smaller city in the period from tenth through the fou
 rteenth century. Although urban historians of China paid little attention 
 to Chang’an after it lost the status of the imperial capital\, I show that
  the rich material remains from Chang’an\, perhaps the best documented of 
 any Chinese city in this period\, allow a detailed account of its urban mo
 rphology. By telling how new monasteries and residential quarters were bui
 lt while old palaces were abandoned and old monuments repurposed\, I show 
 that the power that drove the landscape changes in post-imperial Chang’an 
 was not primarily the commercial one. Instead\, a negotiation between itin
 erant imperial representatives and local magnates determined the shape of 
 the city. This case study of Chang’an helps us recognize a southern bias i
 n the study of the city in Middle Period China\, and compels us to rethink
  the role of the “medieval commercial revolution” in China’s urban history
 .\n
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LOCATION:Sherbrooke  688\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 3R1\, 688 rue Sherbrook
 e Ouest
SUMMARY:RGGP: Xin Wen (Princeton): Landscape and Power in Post-Imperial Cha
 ng'an
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 landscape-and-power-post-imperial-changan-368332
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