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Enclave to urbanity : canton, foreigners, and architecture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries /
Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's predominantly Chinese population...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Chapter 1: The Thirteen Factories; Situation; Origins and Materials; Façades-Changes and Continuities; Plans and Room Use; Everyday Life: Inhabitants and Rituals; The Pearl River: Transportation, Habitation, and Linkages; Connecting Fabric: The Square, the Streets, and Regulating Relations; Violated Boundaries and the Factory as Fortress; Turf Disputes; Tensions Boil, Crowds Erupt; Defensible Space and Its Final Vanity; Chapter 2: Westerners Draw Their Boundaries; Modest Living and Work South of the River: Honam; A New Era but a Separate Peace: Dwelling on Shamian.
- Presenting a European Face: A Survey of Houses on Shamian, 1870-1900Western Official and Commercial Buildings Outside Shamian; Domesticity and Division: Inside the Foreign House and Yard, 1865-1900; A Problem of Translation: Missionaries Confront (and Inhabit) the City; Neighboring Sparks, Local Flames: Violence and Space in the 1880s; The Later Nineteenth Century and the Two Worlds of Guangzhou; Chapter 3: Dining, Shopping, Bombarding, and Touring; Guests and Customers: "Invited" Foreigners in the Early Nineteenth Century; Visiting a Buddhist Monastery; Flower Grounds.
- Invitation to a Chop-stick DinnerThe Impulse to Buy; The City Question: Entry and Mapping in the Third Quarter of the Nineteenth Century; Tourism at the Sunset of Imperial Guangzhou: Institutions, Ideologies, and Power; The Press of the Crowd; The "Regulation" Sites; Urban Fabric and Western Perceptions; Chapter 4: Xin Guangzhou; New Business, New Buildings, and Cross-Cultural Controversy in Twentieth-Century Shamian; Learning and Living Together: Foreign Philanthropic Institutions; Xin Guangzhou: Foreigners and the Modernization of Canton; Civic Visions: The Sights of Republican Guangzhou.
- Chapter 5: ConclusionGlossary; Bibliography; Index; Plates.