Olivia Milburn is associate professor of Chinese literature at Seoul National University. She is the author of Cherishing Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom and translator of The Glory of Yue: An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu.

"Urbanization in Early and Medieval China has done a significant service to the field by making available a much-needed new set of Suzhou-focused texts for historians, literary scholars, and cultural geographers of early and medieval China. For those of us who teach seminars on Chinese cities past of present, this book will provide ample productive reading material with which to provoke discussion, along with texts with which to launch research projects—at any level."

• IllustrationsA Note on NomenclaturePrefaceAcknowledgmentsChronology of Chinese DynastiesIntroductionThree Gazetteers of SuzhouTales of the Lands of WuRecords of the Lands of WuSupplementary Records to the “Illustrated Guide to Wu Commandery”CommentaryAnalysis and ComparisonsConclusionNotes GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Olivia Milburn is associate professor of Chinese literature at Seoul National University. She is the author of Cherishing Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom and translator of The Glory of Yue: An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu.

"Urbanization in Early and Medieval China has done a significant service to the field by making available a much-needed new set of Suzhou-focused texts for historians, literary scholars, and cultural geographers of early and medieval China. For those of us who teach seminars on Chinese cities past of present, this book will provide ample productive reading material with which to provoke discussion, along with texts with which to launch research projects—at any level."

• IllustrationsA Note on NomenclaturePrefaceAcknowledgmentsChronology of Chinese DynastiesIntroductionThree Gazetteers of SuzhouTales of the Lands of WuRecords of the Lands of WuSupplementary Records to the “Illustrated Guide to Wu Commandery”CommentaryAnalysis and ComparisonsConclusionNotes GlossaryBibliographyIndex

Olivia Milburn is associate professor of Chinese literature at Seoul National University. She is the author of Cherishing Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom and translator of The Glory of Yue: An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu.

"Urbanization in Early and Medieval China has done a significant service to the field by making available a much-needed new set of Suzhou-focused texts for historians, literary scholars, and cultural geographers of early and medieval China. For those of us who teach seminars on Chinese cities past of present, this book will provide ample productive reading material with which to provoke discussion, along with texts with which to launch research projects—at any level."

• IllustrationsA Note on NomenclaturePrefaceAcknowledgmentsChronology of Chinese DynastiesIntroductionThree Gazetteers of SuzhouTales of the Lands of WuRecords of the Lands of WuSupplementary Records to the “Illustrated Guide to Wu Commandery”CommentaryAnalysis and ComparisonsConclusionNotes GlossaryBibliographyIndex