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The Pivot of the Four Quarters
副标题: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City
ISBN: 9780852241745
出版社: Edinburgh University Press
出版年: 1971-8-18
页数: 603
定价: GBP 18.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Continuing Redfield and Singer’s concern for the cultural role of cities within their societies, Paul Wheatley in The Pivot of the Four Quarters (1971) has taken the earliest form of urban culture to be a ceremonial or cult centre that organized and dominated a surrounding rural region through its sacred practices and authority.
作者简介
Many historians and geographers have explained away the existence of cities in simple economic terms: Steady commerce lured peasants, villagers and other country folk to urban areas in droves, forming massive agglomerations of convenience and proximity.
Paul Wheatley, an England-born geographer who honed his map-reading skills as a navigator on World War II bombers, challenged that notion, arguing that religious and cultural factors may have been just as important as economics in turning cities into cornerstones of modern society.
