Remaking the Chinese city : modernity and national identity, 1900-1950 /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiì Press,
©2000.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Modernity and nation in the Chinese city / Joseph W. Esherick
- Canton remapped / Michael Tsin
- Hygienic modernity in Tianjin / Ruth Rogaski
- Urban identity and urban networks in cosmopolitan cities: banks and bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan
- Railway city and national capital: two faces of the modern in Changchun / David D. Buck
- Yang Sen in Chengdu: urban planning in the interior / Kristin Stapleton
- Tourism and spatial change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927 / Liping Wang
- Defining Beiping: urban reconstruction and national identity, 1928-1936 / Madeleine Yue Dong
- Building a dream: constructing a national capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937 / Charles D. Musgrove
- Wuhan's search for identity in the Republican period / Stephen R. MacKinnon
- The city as nation: creating a wartime capital in Chongqing / Lee McIsaac
- Locating old Shanghai: having fits about where it fits / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
- New Chinese cities / David Strand.