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Making place : state projects, globalisation and local responses in China /

To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the cre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Feuchtwang, Stephan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Portland, Or. : UCL ; Cavendish, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Theorising place / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • PART 1 : URBAN PLACES
  • Mapping 'chaos': the Dong Xi Fo feuds of Quanzhou, 1644-1839 / Wang Mingming
  • Breathing new life into Beijing culture: new 'traditional' public spaces and the Chaoyang neighbourhood Yangge associations / Florence Graezer
  • Establishing 'home' away from home: Chinese migrants in the industrial transformation of Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong / Graham Johnson
  • Traditional territories in a contemporary city: agency and policy in the preservation of hereditary rights / Elizabeth Lominska Johnson
  • PART 2 : RURAL PLACES
  • 'The place where the age wouldn't go' and 'the place where the sage was born': mutual definitions of place in Shandong and Heilongjiang / Zhao Bingxiang
  • Hmong places and locality / Nicholas Tapp
  • Senses of local place and the temples of West Hunan / Mary Rack
  • Curves and the urbanisation of Meifa village / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • AFTERWORD
  • Space and time / Laurie Kain Hart.