Remaking the Chinese City
Douban
Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950
Joseph Esherick (Editor)
Übersicht
At the end of the 20th century the attention of some historians focused to a remarkable extent on the experience of Chinese cities in the early decades of the century. This work brings together research by a number of key contributors to this scholarly literature and offers a broadly informed, collective assessment of the late-Qing and Republican elite project fundamentally to remake cities.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Modernity and Nation in the Chinese City
Part I: The Modernist City
Chapter 2 Canton Remapped Chapter 2
Chapter 3 Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin
Chapter 4 Urban Identity and Urban Networks in Cosmopolitan Cities
Chapter 5 Railway City and National Capital
Chapter 6 Yang Sen in Chengdu
Part II: Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 7 Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927
Chapter 8 Defining Beiping
Chapter 9 Building a Dream
Part III: City and Nation
Chapter 10 Wuhan's Search for Identity in the Republican Period
Chapter 11 The City as Nation
Chapter 12 Locating Old Shanghai
Chapter 13 New Chinese Cities
