Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface PART ONE: PEKING AND ITS TEMPLES 1. Introducing Peking 2. Gods and Clerics 3. Communities and Public Space PART TWO: MING PEKING 4. A New Capital 5. Imperial Peking 6. Urban Communities 7. Late Ming Associations 8. Seeing the Sights PART THREE: QING PEKING 9. 1644: Partition and Transition 10. The Imperial World 11. New Divisions 12. Reintegration 13. The Sights of Qing Peking 14. Religious Associations 15. Temples and Private Purposes 16. Temples and Public Purposes Epilogue: In Search of Old Peking Appendix 1: Data on Temples Appendix 2: Data on Inscriptions Appendix 3: Donations to Ming and Qing Temples Bibliography Glossary-Index

About the Author

Susan Naquin is Professor of History at Princeton University. Her earlier books include Millenarian Rebellion in China (1976) and Shantung Rebellion (1981); as coauthor, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century (1987); and, as coeditor, Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (California, 1992).

Reviews

"Susan Naquin describes Peking during the Ming (1368-1644) when powerful eunuchs surrounded the emperor and highly educated scholars fell to factional infighting over issues of doctrine involving philosophical schools and theories of government. . . . As a central theme by which to grasp some of the patterns in the mosaic of Peking over the five hundred years covered by her study, Professor Naquin has selected religious temples as her point of reference. She describes something of the hagiography of the gods honoured in these temples (indeed, Part One of the book on the organization of popular religion and temples in pre-modern urban China could in and of itself constitute an excellent and useful book if published as a separate volume) and she outlines the activities of all the major religious groups in Peking, including Buddhists, Taoists, Tibetan Buddhists, the generic gods of popular Chinese religion, Moslems, Christians, and various Christian sects including the Russian Orthodox church." --China Review