Christian de Pee in Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries and a co-editor of Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song (1127-1179).

• Preface, Introduction. The Emergence of the City into Writing, Chapter 1. The City at the Center of the World: Chang'an as Center and as Ruin in the Ninth Century, Chapter 2. Finding Oneself in the City: Crowds, Commodities, and Subjectivity in the Eleventh Century, Chapter 3. Losing the Way in the City: Infrastructure, Money, and Intellectual Crisis in the Eleventh Century, Conclusion. The City Remergent, Bibliography, Primary sources, Secondary sources.

Christian de Pee in Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries and a co-editor of Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song (1127-1179).

• Preface, Introduction. The Emergence of the City into Writing, Chapter 1. The City at the Center of the World: Chang'an as Center and as Ruin in the Ninth Century, Chapter 2. Finding Oneself in the City: Crowds, Commodities, and Subjectivity in the Eleventh Century, Chapter 3. Losing the Way in the City: Infrastructure, Money, and Intellectual Crisis in the Eleventh Century, Conclusion. The City Remergent, Bibliography, Primary sources, Secondary sources.

Christian de Pee in Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries and a co-editor of Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song (1127-1179).

• Preface, Introduction. The Emergence of the City into Writing, Chapter 1. The City at the Center of the World: Chang'an as Center and as Ruin in the Ninth Century, Chapter 2. Finding Oneself in the City: Crowds, Commodities, and Subjectivity in the Eleventh Century, Chapter 3. Losing the Way in the City: Infrastructure, Money, and Intellectual Crisis in the Eleventh Century, Conclusion. The City Remergent, Bibliography, Primary sources, Secondary sources.