Remaking the Chinese City : Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 /

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In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth...

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Otros Autores: Buck, David (Contribuidor), Esherick, Joseph W. (Editor ), Esherick, Joseph (Contribuidor), MacKinnon, Stephen (Contribuidor), McIsaac, Lee (Contribuidor), Musgrove, Charles (Contribuidor), Rogaski, Ruth (Contribuidor), Sheehan, Brett (Contribuidor), Strand, David (Contribuidor), Tsin, Michael (Contribuidor), Wang, Liping (Contribuidor), Wasserstrom, Jeffrey (Contribuidor), Yue Dong, Madeleine (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2000]
Temas:
Cities and towns > China > History > 20th century.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Modernity and Nation in the Chinese City
  • Part I: The Modernist City
  • Chapter 2. Canton Remapped
  • Chapter 3. Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin
  • Chapter 4. Urban Identity and Urban Networks in Cosmopolitan Cities: Banks and Bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937
  • Chapter 5. Railway City and National Capital Two Faces of the Modern in Changchun
  • Chapter 6. Yang Sen in Chengdu Urban Planning in the Interior
  • Part II: Tradition and Modernity
  • Chapter 7. Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927
  • Chapter 8. Defining Beiping Urban Reconstruction and National Identity, 1928-1936
  • Chapter 9. Building a Dream Constructing a National Capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937
  • Part III: City and Nation
  • Chapter 10. Wuhan's Search for Identity in the Republican Period
  • Chapter 11. The City as Nation: Creating a Wartime Capital in Chongqing
  • Chapter 12. Locating Old Shanghai Having Fits about Where It Fits
  • Chapter 13. New Chinese Cities
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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