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COMPLAINING ABOUT LIVED SPACES: RESPONSES TO THE URBAN LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF NORTHERN SONG KAIFENG

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2018

Lik Hang Tsui
Lik Hang Tsui*
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Hong Kong Baptist University, e-mail: tsui_lincoln@hotmail.com
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Abstract

This article explores the understudied issue of urban problems in pre-modern China and examines the responses to the negative impact of urban development on life in the populous city of Kaifeng in the Northern Song (960–1127). Although writers, painters, and historians have portrayed the capital city's splendor for centuries, various urban problems emerged as medieval China became a more urbanized society. This article investigates Ouyang Xiu's (1007–1072) accounts of how extreme weather conditions adversely affected the lives of Kaifeng residents. These experiences, which he discussed in letters and poems, are associated with longer trends that result in climatic anomalies and disasters in the city. Ouyang Xiu also complained about living costs and medical services in Kaifeng. These reflect the difficulties in maintaining good urban provisions and services in a city of this scale.

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KaifengNorthern SongOuyang Xiuurban living environmentweather
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Research Article
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 2 , Special Issue 2: Perspectives on Environmental History in China , July 2018 , pp. 335 - 353
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Footnotes

Earlier drafts of this article have been presented at workshops and conferences at Peking University, London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, the Portuguese Institute of Sinology, and Shandong University. I am grateful to the participants and also Marshall Craig, Sabine Dabringhaus, Richard Davis, Hilde De Weerdt, Deng Xiaonan, Ding Haiyan, Charles Hartman, Heng Du, Ho Koon-wan, Chen Liu, Antje Richter, Xin Wen, Ling Zhang, as well as three anonymous reviewers for their comments and encouragement.

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85 “Yu Mei Shengyu” 與梅聖俞 6, OYXQJ, 149/2451.

86 Meng Yuanlao, Dongjing menghua lu jianzhu, 3/268–74.

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97 See Kobayashi Yoshihiro, Ōyō Shū, Ch. 7; Liu Jinzhu, “Ouyang Xiu muji jiqi xiantian yinsu.”

98 For example, see Dong Yingshou, “Xinjian jiu shi liu pian Ouyang Xiu sanyi shujian jicungao,” 11–15.

99 “Yu Xue Shaoqing Gongqi” 9, OYXQJ, 152/2507.

100 “Qi yao yougan cheng Mei Shengyu” 乞藥有感呈梅聖俞, OYXQJ, 54/771.

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106 See Curie Virag, “‘That Which Encompasses the Myriad Cares’: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and the Ethics of Emotion in Tang and Song China” (PhD diss., Harvard University, 2004), Ch. 4.