Navigating the City Interior
Navigating the City Interior
“Navigating the City Interior” demonstrates that when Tang narratives follow their examinee-protagonists into the city walls of Chang’an, the liminal status of the protagonists becomes imbricated with Chang’an’s urban space, and the itineraries their wanderings trace out shed light on its spatial logic. The neophyte in Tang tales, frequently represented as being put to the test by the city’s extra-official and extra-familial networks, show that literati personhood in the latter half of the Tang was a distinctly metropolitan one, and was colored and inflected by the distinctive and unruly configuration of space and social alliances found in Chang’an.
Keywords: Chang’an, urban space, spatial logic, cityscape, walls, transgression, narratives
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