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).

Honourable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) at the AAS 2024 Book Awards "This is a challenging and significant book that should have a lasting impact on middle period scholarship."- Hugh Clark, Journal of Chinese History, Cambridge University Press (2023)

• 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).

Honourable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) at the AAS 2024 Book Awards "This is a challenging and significant book that should have a lasting impact on middle period scholarship."- Hugh Clark, Journal of Chinese History, Cambridge University Press (2023)

• 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).

Honourable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) at the AAS 2024 Book Awards "This is a challenging and significant book that should have a lasting impact on middle period scholarship."- Hugh Clark, Journal of Chinese History, Cambridge University Press (2023)

• 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