新书｜斐志昂：《中世中国的城市生活与智识危机》

Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100

Amsterdam University Press, 2022

ISBN 9789463721660

作者介绍

斐志昂（Christian de Pee），美国密西根大学历史系教授。

内容简介

In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings and busy harbors. Their purpose in writing the city was ideological. On the written page, they tried to establish a distinction that eluded them in the avenues and to discern an immanent pattern in the movement of people, goods, and money. By the end of the eleventh century, however, they recognized that they had failed in their efforts. They had lost the Way in the city. Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 reveals the central place of urban life in the history of the eleventh century. Important developments in literary innovation and monetary policy, in canonical exegesis and civil engineering, in financial reform and public health, converge in this book as they converged in the city.

参考译文：

11世纪，宋代（960—1279年）城市开始出现于文人的著作中。此前数个世纪的文人们无视车水马龙的街道，但到了11世纪他们从矗立的建筑与繁忙的港口中发现了美。宋代文人描写城市是意识型态的书写。他们试图在书页上建立从大街上无法看到的区隔，在人流、物流与金流当中建立一种内在的模式。然而，11世纪末他们发现自己的努力终告失败，他们在城市中迷失了。《中世中国的城市生活与智识危机，9~12世纪》揭示城市生活在11世纪历史中的重要地位，文学创新与货币政策、典范注释与土木工程、金融改革与公共卫生等各方面的重要发展，在本书中就像在宋代城市一样的汇聚。（译文来自汉学研究通讯电子报）

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