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DESCRIPTION: \n\nEast Asian Studies Speaker Series Talk\n	'Landscape and Pow
 er in Post-Imperial Chang'an'\n	Professor Xin Wen\, Princeton University\n	T
 hursday October 23\, 4:35 PM\n	680 Sherbrooke Room 1041\n	Co-sponsored by th
 e Research Group on Global Pasts of the Yan Lin Centre and the Centre for 
 Global Chinese Studies\n\nAbstract:\n	Chang’an\, the capital of the Tang (6
 18–907) dynasty\, had a walled area of 84 square kilometers and a populati
 on of one million\, making it the largest city in the medieval world. Afte
 r the fall of the Tang\, a new Chang’an emerged within the old city. This 
 smaller Chang’an\, about 6 percent in landmass compared to the old city\, 
 continued to function as a regional center to this day. This lecture explo
 res the landscape of this smaller city in the period from tenth through th
 e fourteenth century. Although urban historians of China paid little atten
 tion to Chang’an after it lost the status of the imperial capital\, I show
  that the rich material remains from Chang’an\, perhaps the best documente
 d of any Chinese city in this period\, allow a detailed account of its urb
 an morphology. By telling how new monasteries and residential quarters wer
 e built while old palaces were abandoned and old monuments repurposed\, I 
 show that the power that drove the landscape changes in post-imperial Chan
 g’an was not primarily the commercial one. Instead\, a negotiation between
  itinerant imperial representatives and local magnates determined the shap
 e of the city. This case study of Chang’an helps us recognize a southern b
 ias in the study of the city in Middle Period China\, and compels us to re
 think the role of the “medieval commercial revolution” in China’s urban hi
 story.\n
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LOCATION:Sherbrooke 680\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2M7\, 680\, rue Sherbroo
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SUMMARY:Landscape and Power in Post-Imperial Chang'an
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