Chen yuan shi lüe ???? [Sketches of the Imperial Enclosure]

WU, Changyuan ???

Beschreibung

Some printing in red. Eight vols. Small 8vo, orig. wrappers, new stitching. [China]: [Baolin Tang], 1876. Updated and revised digest of the "greatest of the Qing compendia on Peking." Intended for tourism, the book contains several maps printed in red ink. The origins of the book can be traced to Zhu Yizun s ??? (1629-1709) Rixia jiuwen ???? [Ancient Accounts Heard in the Precincts of the Throne] from 1688. "Zhu s focus was on Peking under the Ming." In 1785, the Qing court issued Rixia jiuwen kao ????? [Study of "Ancient Accounts Heard in the Precincts of the Throne"]. "It used Zhu s work as its framework, taking the reader through the city from palace to Imperial City to Inner City to Outer City to suburbs to the rest of Shuntian prefecture…but it rearranged the material to match Peking s Qing administrative geography." Wu Changyuan, the author of our book, first published in 1788, "vigorously cut" the imperial digest down to a more manageable size. "He retained most of the original entries, pruned them of primary sources, and supplemented them with new ones. Moreover, Wu reorganized the material explicitly for tourism (youlan)." "Reflecting (and promoting) visitor curiosity about the Banner elite, Wu added entries on the mansions of the Manchu nobility and the offices of the Banner authorities. The palace (including a section on the Great Interior) and the imperial villas were each given separate chapters. Some poems by Qing authors were included. Wu identified the homes of famous Chinese and, all in all, gave much greater consideration to the world of the Chinese city than any of the books" that preceded him in the genre (Naquin, Peking, 453-59). The book contains a Preface by Shao Jinhan ??? (1743-96), which, like the maps, is printed in red ink. The title-page says, "the blocks are held at this Hall" ???? Another copy of the same edition (WorldCat 1183107809) has a slip pasted onto the cover with the text "printed by Baolin Tang, Hall of the Forest of Treasures " ???? Fine set, preserved in a hantao. References Naquin, Susan. Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9646

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